[firedrake] Mac install

[David Ham]

Feel free to put in a pull request ;)

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 at 16:14 Homolya, Miklós <m.homolya14 at imperial.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I think this could be made automatic, thanks to the execve system call
> (wrapped by os.exec* in Python).
> ------------------------------
> *From:* firedrake-bounces at imperial.ac.uk [firedrake-bounces at imperial.ac.uk]
> on behalf of Colin Cotter [colin.cotter at imperial.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* 03 November 2015 15:05
> *To:* firedrake
> *Subject:* Re: [firedrake] Mac install
>
> The problem here is that a different python is used to execute the script
> the first time than the second, so really the script needs to die after the
> virtualenv is created. (as suggested by Lawrence).
>
> I fixed this by removing the firedrake directory, and re-running the
> script.
>
> cheers
> --cjc
>
> On 31 October 2015 at 10:49, Colin Cotter <colin.cotter at imperial.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>   Just attempted an install script on a clean Mac with El Capitan. After
>> running the install script I was instructed to run it again, and got the
>> following message:
>>
>> Creating firedrake virtualenv.
>>
>> ERROR: The executable firedrake/bin/python2.7 is not functioning
>>
>> ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is
>> u'/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7'
>> (should be u'/Users/colincotter/firedrake')
>>
>> ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable
>>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> --cjc
>>
>
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