0o666 gives syntax error in mac_tool.py on OSX 10.6.8

[vorg]

When i try to compile native module on Mac using gyp I get this error from make command:

File "./gyp-mac-tool", line 154
fd = os.open(lockfile, os.O_RDONLY|os.O_NOCTTY|os.O_CREAT, 0o666)
                                                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[TooTallNate]

What version of python do you have installed? It needs to be at least 2.6 I believe...

Alternatively, you can change the 0o666 in the generated ./gyp-mac-tool file to 0666 manually and it should work.

[vorg]

I have 2.5.4 so that might be it. So far I cope with it by changing it to 0x666, it just tiring to do it all the time manually.

[youurayy]

Couldn't get this to work when installing as (for example) npm install heapdump, but the package was OK to build from source (cd heapdump; node-gyp configure build).

Turned out (most likely), that npm install was modifying the PATH in a way that Apple's python 2.5.4 was being used (/usr/local/bin/python), instead of the 2.7.3 Python installed (and activated) via MacPorts (/usr/bin/python).

After deleting the /usr/local/bin/python symlink, it was magically recreated and now points to Apple Python 2.7. However this fixed the issue.

I guess this may be a problem in the way how MacPorts activates the requested Python version (and perhaps Leopard actively interferes with that), combined with how npm install builds the PATH.

Would be wonderful if Node.js wasn't dependent on Python in the first place. Maybe one day... :)