Installing PyHDF

[teraom]

Hi,

I am working on porting an existing windows application to mac OS X and I am stuck. I am not able to install pyhdf on my mac. [OS X 10.5.8]

I have HDF installed through macports.

Easy_install does not work either

$ easy_install pyhdf
Searching for pyhdf
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyhdf/
Reading ftp://nordet.qc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pub/soft/pyhdf
error: (61, 'Connection refused')

I tried installing from the source code, but I get this error message :

compile options: '-I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/numpy/core/include -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 -c'
gcc -Wl,-F. -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -arch i386 -arch ppc build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyhdf/hdfext_wrap.o -lmfhdf -ldf -lsz -ljpeg -lz -o build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyhdf/_hdfext.so 
 ld: library not found for -lmfhdf
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I am badly in need of help! Been stuck with this for days now.
Would appreciate any pointers and suggestions.

Thanks,
B