Failure to find libpython during darwin (Mac OS) install

[harveyjeffries]

GEOS-3.0.0 At lines 24411 to 24420 in configure:

# Check for Python library path { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Python library path" >&5

echo "checking for Python library path... " >&6; }

for i in "$base_python_path/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/config/" "$base_python_path/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/" "$base_python_path/lib/python/config/" "$base_python_path/lib/python/" "$base_python_path/" "$base_python_path/lib/" ; do

# python_path=find $i -type f -name libpython$PYTHON_VERSION.* -print 2> /dev/null | sed "1q"

python_path=find $i -name libpython$PYTHON_VERSION.* -print 2> /dev/null | sed "1q" if test -n "$python_path" ; then

break

fi

done

The use of -type f in the commented out line prevents file 'libpython*.*' from being found. Installation works when -type omitted.