Thoughts on System Administration

If you want to use Fink, and build a bunch of crap you don’t need, follow these instructions.

If you are like me and prefer to use the libraries that are already installed, just do this:

1. If you haven’t already, install XCode.
2. Download python-ldap

and extract it.

3. Edit setup.cfg. The relevant lines are below:

   library_dirs = /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib/
   include_dirs = /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include/ /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include/sasl

4. sudo python setup.py install

That’s all!