The import check in setup.py fails on Mac OS X for Carbon-based modules
if you are not building while logged in to the console (you cannot
connect to the window server, so the Carbon library doesn't initialize).
Added a quick hack to skip the import test, with a warning, for modules
linked against Carbon.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f9903ef..c15bd7c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@
self.announce('WARNING: building of extension "%s" failed: %s' %
(ext.name, sys.exc_info()[1]))
return
+ # Workaround for Mac OS X: The Carbon-based modules cannot be
+ # reliably imported into a command-line Python
+ if 'Carbon' in ext.extra_link_args:
+ self.announce('WARNING: skipping import check for Carbon-based "%s"' % ext.name)
+ return
try:
__import__(ext.name)
except ImportError: