python easy_install fails with “assembler for architecture ppc not installed” on Mac OS X

Question

bash-3.2$ sudo easy_install appscript  
Password:  
Searching for appscript  
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/appscript/  
Reading http://appscript.sourceforge         


        

Answer 1

I found another solution here which solves the problem once and for all. It turns out XCode4 still has the ppc assembler. You just need a symlink to it in the right place:

$ sudo ln -s /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc /Developer/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin
$ sudo ln -s /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin

Fixed the problem for me with XCode4 installed on Snow Leopard.

EDIT: I tried other solutions, which worked in some cases, but invariably encountered a package that hardcoded the PPC requirement somewhere. Providing the PPC assembler got rid of all these problems once and for all.