Hi Ralf,
Could you try editing the file
$PHENIX/phenix/phenix/command_line/start_coot.sh
It is a short file. In the middle you'll see a list of "unset" statement. Does it solve the original problem if you add
unset MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
That works fine, but there's still something a bit odd going on. If I add an "echo $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET" to that file, it prints 10.4, but if I run phenix.python and then "os.getenv('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET')" it's unset. So it's being set in the environment somewhere in PHENIX prior to Coot being run? But not in a straight PHENIX python environment? It's probably not a big deal, but I don't like not understanding the problem fully; it makes me less confident of the solution. :-) -ben -- | Ben Eisenbraun | SBGrid Consortium | http://sbgrid.org | | Harvard Medical School | http://hms.harvard.edu |