RE: How to install planet venus on OS X

Dave Levy, Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:57:58 -0000:

Hi Dave, thanks for your reply!

> No one replied yet?

Nope.

> I suspect that it's a PATH thing. I have a copy of sed in /usr/bin which my
> PATH finds.

I myself have sed in the same location. It looks as if I have libxml2 
there too - at least xmllint is there. The use of Mac Ports often leads 
to double set of installations. So I have at least libxml2 inside /opt 
as well.

> I have not installed planet on MAC yet, so can't comment on libxml2 except
> to say that MACOS does not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but
> DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.

Not sure what you refer to here. But I searched through the downloaded 
Planet Venus files but did not find the string 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'. Do yo 
talk about PATH here? I must admit that I don't know what to do in that 
regard.

> The template error looks like an error in config.ini. I suspect that the
> directory structure doesn't exist on your machine, so you need to find out
> why run_tests.py thinks it does.

The documentation says that one can install Planet Venus wherever one