On Mac OS X, easy_install fabric and/or easy_install pycrypto fails due to linker error “illegal text-relocation”

Question

When trying to easy_install fabric (or easy_install pycrypto , which fabric depends on), I got the following linker error on Mac OS X:

ld: illegal text-relocation to ___gmp_binvert_limb_table in /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a(mp_minv_tab.o) from ___gmpn_divexact_1 in /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a(dive_1.o) for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1

Answer 1

I was using a custom install of python, which apparently wasn't compatible with my standard install of libGMP . Building libGMP from source (in my own prefix location, used by my special python install) fixed the problem.

$ bunzip2 gmp-5.0.5.tar.bz2
$ tar -xf gmp-5.0.5.tar
$ cd gmp-5.0.5
$ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/my/special/prefix
$ make
$ make check
$ make install
$ easy_install pycrypto
$ easy_install fabric