Thanks for the quick reply!

I seem to have nspr installed because when using:

$ sudo port install nspr

I get the following already installed message (well i think that's what it is)

Macintosh-9:~ calum$ sudo port install nspr
Password:
Skipping org.macports.activate (nspr ) since this port is already active
---> Cleaning nspr

I checked /opt/local/bin and there is a nspr-config file. I used

$ PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin python setup.py build

and again got the same error as always:

Macintosh-9:python-spidermonkey-0.0.7 calum$ PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin python setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 186, in

**platform_config()

File "setup.py", line 143, in platform_config

return nspr_config(config=config)

File "setup.py", line 87, in nspr_config

return pkg_config("nspr", config)

File "setup.py", line 59, in pkg_config

raise RuntimeError("No package configuration found for: %s" % pkg_name)

RuntimeError: No package configuration found for: nspr

Also to note, when I installed MacPorts for the first time it didn't work. So i added the following to /Users/Calum/.bash_profile

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh

Now the complete file (/Users/Calum/.bash_profile) reads:

Setting PATH for MacPython 2.6

The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave

PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

##

Your previous /Users/calum/.bash_profile file was backed up as /Users/calum/.bash_profile.macports-saved_2009-06-25_at_01:05:02

##

MacPorts Installer addition on 2009-06-25_at_01:05:02: adding an appropriate MANPATH variable for use with MacPorts.

export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH

Finished adapting your MANPATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh

Not sure if this is having an effect.

Calum

Just to clarify the parts in header format are commented out, but i'm guessing the hash is seen as formatting and therefore removed.

Calum,

Oh, forgot one, you need pkgconfig installed too.

$ sudo port install pkgconfig

In the end, you need the following command to work:

$ pkg-config --cflags nspr
-I/opt/local/include/nspr

If that fixes things I'll add a note to the README.

Calum,

Did you manage to get this fixed?

Paul

Paul

Sorry for the delay in the response. My computer went in for repairs so I won't know till next week. I will let you know as soon as I get it from repairs.

Calum

I can confirm that it does fix it.

Cheers,
Bernardo Heynemann

But then I get the following:
sudo pip install python-spidermonkey
Downloading/unpacking python-spidermonkey
Running setup.py egg_info for package python-spidermonkey

warning: no files found matching 'README'

Installing collected packages: python-spidermonkey
Running setup.py install for python-spidermonkey

building 'spidermonkey' extension
gcc-4.2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64 -pipe -Ispidermonkey/libjs -Ispidermonkey/Darwin-i386 -I/opt/local/include/nspr -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6 -c ./spidermonkey/libjs/jsarena.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-universal-2.6/./spidermonkey/libjs/jsarena.o -DJS_THREADSAFE -DPOSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wno-strict-prototypes -DXP_UNIX
In file included from ./spidermonkey/libjs/jsarena.c:49:
./spidermonkey/libjs/jsbit.h:169: error: size of array ‘js_static_assert_line_169’ is negative
lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccdi5TV7.out (No such file or directory)
error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1
Complete output from command /usr/local/virtual/bin/python -c "import setuptools; __file__='/usr/local/virtual/build/python-spidermonkey/setup.py'; execfile('/usr/local/virtual/build/python-spidermonkey/setup.py')" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-snHrZX-record/install-record.txt --install-headers /usr/local/virtual/lib/include:
running install

running build

running build_ext

building 'spidermonkey' extension

gcc-4.2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64 -pipe -Ispidermonkey/libjs -Ispidermonkey/Darwin-i386 -I/opt/local/include/nspr -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6 -c ./spidermonkey/libjs/jsarena.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-universal-2.6/./spidermonkey/libjs/jsarena.o -DJS_THREADSAFE -DPOSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wno-strict-prototypes -DXP_UNIX

In file included from ./spidermonkey/libjs/jsarena.c:49:

./spidermonkey/libjs/jsbit.h:169: error: size of array ‘js_static_assert_line_169’ is negative

lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccdi5TV7.out (No such file or directory)

error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1

Command /usr/local/virtual/bin/python -c "import setuptools; file='/usr/local/virtual/build/python-spidermonkey/setup.py'; execfile('/usr/local/virtual/build/python-spidermonkey/setup.py')" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-snHrZX-record/install-record.txt --install-headers /usr/local/virtual/lib/include failed with error code 1

I beat my head on this a bit more.

The assertion errors results from sizeof(unsigned) (4) not being the
same as sizeof(unsigned long) (8). I assume this was something that
changed in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Since python-spidermonkey includes a snapshot of spidermonkey, I
thought I'd try to install later versions of spider monkley and
install python-spidermonkey via system libraries. After much flailing,
I managed to get a system build of spider monkey from the mercurial
repo build with --enable-threadsafe and managed to get
python-spidermonkey to use it by hand crafting a mozilla-ns.pc file.
Unfortunately, python-spidermonkey fails to build with many errors
suggesting the spidermonkey apis have changed too much for
python-spidermonkey to keep up with.

Building python-spidermonkey egg on Mac

To build a python-spidermonkey egg on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard):

1. Install from MacPorts:
   

   • pkg-config

     sudo port -c install pkgconfig +universal
     

   • spidermonkey

     sudo port -c install spidermonkey +universal
     

   The spidermonkey port will install nspr as a dependency.

   (The +universal is optional. If you use a universal build of Python it's better to build universal libraries too.)

2. Create a pkg-config metadata file for spidermonkey because it
   does not create one during install.

   The file needs to be named mozilla-js.pc because that's the name python-spidermonkey is looking for when it calls pkg-config.

   Open in your favorite editor /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/mozilla-js.pc and put this content in

   prefix=/opt/local
   exec_prefix=${prefix}
   libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
   includedir=${prefix}/include/js
   
   Name: SpiderMonkey
   Description: JavaScript-C Engine
   Version: 1.7.0
   
   Requires: nspr
   Libs: -L${libdir} -ljs
   Cflags: -I${includedir} -DJS_THREADSAFE -DJS_C_STRINGS_ARE_UTF8 -DXP_UNIX
   

3. Download a source distribution of the python-spidermonkey egg from
   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-spidermonkey/0.0.9 or the latest snapshot from the python-spidermonkey home page listed at PyPI.

4. Unpack the source distribution and build the egg using zc.buildout

   buildout setup . --system-library bdist_egg
   

   or Python

   python setup.py --system-library bdist_egg
   

   (Add the appropriate path to buildout or python above.)