python easy_install fails with “assembler for architecture ppc not installed” on Mac OS X
This happened for me after having upgraded to XCode 4; I haven’t had time to figure out what went wrong during the upgrade (or whether this is the intended behaviour), but the following workaround works for me: sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386″ easy_install whatever The ARCHFLAGS trick works with setup.py as well: env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386 -arch … Read more