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

For me, the key was the ppc assembler, not the ARCHFLAGS stuff. But, the suggestion above didn't work; I didn't have the files in those locations. But with some tinkering and poking around, I found that I did have the ppc assember at /usr/bin/as. I first tried sudo ln -s /usr/bin/as /usr/libexec/as/ppc/as, but that failed (something about could not fork process...??). So I ended up just doing sudo cp /usr/bin/as /usr/libexec/as/ppc/as, and that worked (I think I had to do some sudo mkdirs along that path, as well).