Hi Onno,
On 5 Aug 2016, at 15:15, Onno Bokhove <o.bokhove@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
We are installing from scratch and get the following; access to brew is in order:
... /usr/local/Cellar/libtool/2.4.6_1/share/man/ (2 files) Creating firedrake virtualenv in 'firedrake'. ERROR: The executable firedrake/bin/python2.7 is not functioning ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is u'/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7' (should be u'/Users/amtob/werk/firedrake') ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable
This is, probably, not a firedrake-install issue. Can you just try creating a virtualenv "by hand" using the python you used to run firedrake-install? $ python -c 'import virtualenv; virtualenv.create_environment("foo", site_packages=False)' Can you also provide the output of: $ env and $ alias ? Cheers, Lawrence