Modified Answer
Here are the steps that I took to successfully install PIL on Mac OS X 10.6 (without using MacPorts or Fink).
Install readline
cd ~/src
curl -O ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf readline-6.0.tar.gz
cd readline-6.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
Install gbdm
cd ~/src
curl -O ftp://mirror.anl.gov/pub/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf gbdm-1.8.3.tar.gz
cd gdbm-1.8.3
# Need to modify Makefile.in
perl -pi -e 's/BINOWN = bin/BINOWN = root/' Makefile.in
perl -pi -e 's/BINGRP = bin/BINGRP = wheel/' Makefile.in
./configure
make
sudo make install
Compile the latest Python 2.6.2+ from the Mercurial Repo
cd ~/development
hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/branches/release2.6-maint/ python-release2.6-maint.hg
cd python-release2.6-main.hg
./configure --enable-framework MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
make
sudo make frameworkinstall
Note: I did receive the following errors after running make. However, I continued on as I wasn't worried about missing these modules, and I was able to successfully install PIL.
Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
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linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev spwd
sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
Failed to build these modules:
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running build_scripts
Update .bash_profile for the new Python 2.6.2+ and for virtualenvwrapper
# Set PATH for MacPython 2.6 if Python2.6 is installed
if [ -x /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python2.6 ]; then
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
fi
# MDR April 23, 2009: Added for virtualenvwrapper
if [ -x /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/virtualenvwrapper_bashrc ]; then
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME
source /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/virtualenvwrapper_bashrc
fi
Install easy_install, pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper for Python 2.6.2+
curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
sudo python ez_setup.py
sudo easy_install pip
sudo easy_install virtualenv
sudo easy_install virtualenvwrapper
Create a virtualenv and then use pip to install PIL
mkvirtualenv pil-test
cdvirtualenv
easy_install pip
pip install http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
Note: I was not able to install PIL using pip install pil, so I installed from the URL as shown above.
Original Answer
From what I can see in your pip-log.txt file it appears that you installed Python 2.6.2 using the Mac Installer Disk Image from Python.org released on April 16, 2009. Can you confirm this?
From the pip log, gcc failed with exit status 1. The offending gcc command from your pip log is as follows:
gcc -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -DHAVE_LIBJPEG -DHAVE_LIBZ -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers -IlibImaging -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6 -c _imaging.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-fat-2.6/_imaging.o
This appears to be a problem related to Snow Leopard changing the default value for the -arch flag from i386 to x86-64 according to Ronald Oussoren in Message 92083 of Python Issue 6802. There is a patch available Python 2.6.2, but it has not been integrated into the Mac Installer Disk Image.
Your best solution that doesn't involve MacPorts or Fink would probably be to compile and install Python from the 2.6 release branch from either the Mercurial Python Repository or the Subversion Python Repository. According to Message 92315 of Issue 6802, Ronald Oussoren fixed this in Revision r74686.
I've been seeing similar errors using Python 2.6.2 installed from the Mac Disk Image while trying to then install Fabric in a virtualenv, so I plan to compile and install from the 2.6 release maintenance branch. If you want, I'll update when successful.
