MySQLdb installation error

[Yi Xing]

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hiaips rosedb0 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 01:23:10 CEST 2006

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Yi Xing wrote:

Hi,

I met the following error when I tried to install MySQLdb. I had no
problem installing numarray, Numeric, Rpy, etc. Does anyone know
what's the problem? Thanks!

running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4
copying _mysql_exceptions.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4
creating build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/__init__.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/converters.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/connections.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/cursors.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/release.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/times.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb
creating build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/REFRESH.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py ->
build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/MySQLdb/constants
running build_ext
building '_mysql' extension
creating build/temp.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp
-mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -I/usr/include/mysql
-I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/include/python2.4
-c _mysql.c -o build/temp.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/_mysql.o
-fno-omit-frame-pointer -arch i386 -arch ppc -pipe
-Dversion_info="(1,2,1,'final',2)" -D__version__="1.2.1_p2"
gcc: cannot read specs file for arch `i386'
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

What version of OSX are you running?

[hiaips]

What I'm getting at is that it looks like one of these arch flags needs
to be removed, as a previous poster said. I remember having a similar
issue with an arch flag when installing some Python module (don't
remember whether it was MySQLdb or not), and I fixed it by installing
the Universal SDK that comes with XCode on OS 10.4. If this is not an
option for you (and it sounds as though it may not be), you might also
try editing the Makefile to remove the flag corresponding to the
architecture that does not match your system.

"uname -a" should tell you which architecture you're on as well as what
version of the OS you're running.