Re: [igraph] Compiling python-igraph 0.5.2. for OSX 10.5

[Tamas Nepusz]

> I noticed in the setup.py file that there is macoxs 'hack' to search  
> in the user home directory but it seems a bit weird. I can't find  
> the libigraph.0.0dylib or should it reference to the libigraph.a?
Errrm, shame on me; that hack is there only to make "python setup.py  
bdist_mpkg" work on my Mac when I'm making a release for OS X. This is  
already fixed in the 0.6 development tree so that line gets executed  
only when the command invoked is actually bdist_mpkg. Just remove that  
line and it should be fine.

libigraph.a is not necessary for the extension to work; it's the  
static library that is useful when you are linking to igraph from C  
and you want to make a monolithic executable that includes the entire  
igraph library without depending on libigraph.0.dylib. For the Python  
extension, the only thing needed is that it must find libigraph. 
0.dylib in the linker path when importing igraph from Python. Your  
best bet is probably to put it into /usr/local/lib if it's not already  
there.

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Tamas