"unable to execute -DNDEBUG" - strange gnucash build failure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 21:03, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> It seems to be related to the python install. "which python" was
> finding /usr/bin/python (the MacOSX python). I have now done this:
>
>   cd /opt/local/bin
>   ln -s python2.5 python
>
> and with /opt/local/bin at the start of my $PATH things are now  
> working.
>
> Shouldn't the python packages "know" their preferred python?
> (/opt/local/bin/python2.4 or /opt/local/bin/python2.5)?
> Or shouldn't /opt/local/bin/python already be set up?

You don't need to manually link python2.5 to python. Use the  
python_select port instead.