Install lxml on Mac OS X 10.7 (Python 2.7.1)

lxml.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Install lxml on Mac OS X 10.7. It might work for 10.8 as well.
#

LXML_LIB=libxml2-2.9.0
LXML_ARCHIVE=libxml2-2.9.0.tar.gz

# Start install, it's going to fail...
STATIC_DEPS=true pip install lxml

# Patch sources...
pushd /private/tmp/pip-build/lxml/libs
tar -zxvf $LXML_ARCHIVE
rm $LXML_ARCHIVE
pushd $LXML_LIB
curl https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/patch/threads.c?id=3f6cfbd1d38d0634a2ddcb9a0a13e1b5a2195a5e | patch
popd
tar -zcvf $LXML_ARCHIVE $LXML_LIB
rm -rf $LXML_LIB
popd

# Build again...
STATIC_DEPS=true pip install --no-download lxml

# Check if package is usable...
echo "import lxml; from lxml import etree" | python -
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
	echo "LXML failed to install."
else
	echo "LXML ready to use."
fi

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patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

Seems http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/patch/threads.c?id=3f6cfbd1d38d0634a2ddcb9a0a13e1b5a2195a5e is invalid now. They've moved it to: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/patch/threads.c?id=3f6cfbd1d38d0634a2ddcb9a0a13e1b5a2195a5e.

Updating gist...