euca2ools: make install fails on os x

[Cameron Stokes]

Trying to build euca2ools on OS X fails at the last step in the INSTALL file. Here is the output:

mbp:euca2ools-1.2 user$ sudo make install
Re-generating manpages...
You'll need to install help2man to re-generate the manpages
make[1]: `build' is up to date.
python setup.py install
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing euca2ools.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to euca2ools.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to euca2ools.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file 'euca2ools.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'euca2ools.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
creating build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg
creating build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/euca2ools
copying build/lib/euca2ools/__init__.py -> build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/euca2ools
byte-compiling build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/euca2ools/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
creating build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/EGG-INFO
copying euca2ools.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/EGG-INFO
copying euca2ools.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/EGG-INFO
copying euca2ools.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/EGG-INFO
copying euca2ools.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/EGG-INFO
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
creating 'dist/euca2ools-1.0-py2.6.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing euca2ools-1.0-py2.6.egg
Removing /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/euca2ools-1.0-py2.6.egg
Copying euca2ools-1.0-py2.6.egg to /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
euca2ools 1.0 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Installed /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/euca2ools-1.0-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for euca2ools==1.0
Finished processing dependencies for euca2ools==1.0
install: root: Invalid argument
make: *** [install] Error 67
mbp:euca2ools-1.2 user$

[Cameron Stokes (cameron-cameronstokes)]

Changing the '-g root' option in the MakeFile to '-g wheel' appears to fix this.

[mjpan (mjpan)]

I can confirm the bug, as well as the suggested fix. I've also attached a patch file

[mjpan (mjpan)]

I found the solution to this issue (as well as this ticket) through Cameron's post on his blog. In short, the group "root" does not exist on BSD systems

http://cameronstokes.com/2010/05/11/installing-euca2ools-on-mac-os-x/

[graziano obertelli (graziano.obertelli)]

This is a euca2ool issue.

[Garrett Holmstrom (gholms)]

The Makefile is deprecated; it should probably be removed from the code base altogether because the recommended installation method is to run ``python setup.py install''