tessel/homebrew-tools — pull request #1 by natevw (2014-08-27 22:30:45+00:00)
Title: Fixes gyp formula to work with system Python

This avoids the following error noted at https://github.com/tessel/runtime#os-x:

> ==> Checking out http://gyp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> ==> python setup.py install
>
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/EasyInstall.html
>
> Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

This is due to a simple permissions error — by default it's trying to install to the system-wide Python but doesn't have permissions. Fixing is relatively simple, just add a "--prefix" and some other "older setup.py" workarounds as documented in