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["Matthew Knepley" <knepley@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the way to handle this is to ask distutils for the path, not
look for it on the filesystem.

  Matt

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Gideon Simpson <grs2103@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On OS X 10.5.x, Apple has a Python 2.5 distribution installed in /
>  System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
>
>  I've noticed that the dolfin (and syfi) configuration scripts have
>  trouble finding the python library path.  I have been able to rectify
>  this on my own machine by making the following edit to the configure
>  script:
>
>  change:
>  (21848) python_path=`find $i -type f -name libpython$PYTHON_VERSION.* -
>  print | sed "1q"`
>  to:
>  (21848) python_path=`find $i  -name libpython$PYTHON_VERSION.* -print
>  | sed "1q"`
>
>  not sure if this is an OS X unix thing, or something with the way
>  apple has the python installed.
>
>
>  -gideon
>
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