I just tried to install ROS (Electric) on OSX10.7 on my machine. I ran into two hurdles. Here are the fixes: <div><br></div><div>1: rosinstall fails, says no yaml python module.</div><div>Cause: rosinstall is using the wrong python (/usr/bin/python), pyyaml was installed with macports.</div>
<div>Solution: edit /usr/local/bin/rosinstall, replace &quot;#!/usr/bin/python&quot; with &quot;#!/usr/bin/env python&quot;. </div><div>Ticket: <a href="https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3660">https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3660</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>2: rosmake fails, with a compiler segfault in rosconsle</div><div>I was disappointed to find that this is a known bug, with a known fix, and has been known for weeks prior to release. I&#39;m sorry to see that a version of ros shipped with what is essentially a fatal issue in its core library. It seems this is a bug in Apple&#39;s llvm-gcc, and I know that OSX is not officially supported in ROS, and that there are a lot of hard issues that WG doesn&#39;t have time to support. This one takes a few minutes, and the workaround while not ideal seems harmless. A simple #ifdef __APPLE__ could have even made the workaround only for OSX platforms, leaving Ubuntu unaffected. </div>
<div>Here is the bug/fix: <a href="https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3626">https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3626</a></div><div>It works. Thanks William for the workaround. </div>