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I just want to know if it will be easier or harder to compile ruby and python libraries with native extensions that depend on, say, libxml2. I upgraded to Lion

I just want to know if it will be easier or harder to compile ruby and python libraries with native extensions that depend on, say, libxml2. I upgraded to Lion and it took 8 hours off of the installation process for lxml. But nokogiri was still nearly impossible.

masklinn 14y ago
> I upgraded to Lion and it took 8 hours off of the installation process for lxml. Am I misreading this? It took 8 hours to compile libxml2, libxslt and lxml? Surely that's not possible and I missed something, I just tried making a full static build (to ensure I'd have to build libiconv, libxml2 and libxslt as well) from the current HEAD, on 10.6, using the stock gcc 4.2 on a 2.4GHz 2010 MBP and it took 3:48 total including downloading the tarballs for libiconv, libxml2 and libxslt and cythoning lxml.
adamrt 14y ago
Could you elaborate on your issue? I've not run into this and am interested.