In the first step: configure, I got the following error:
... ...
checking for DBUS... no
configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-1 >= 1.6) were not met:
No package 'dbus-1' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DBUS_CFLAGS
and DBUS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
OSX is complaining that it can't find dbus in the system. Try installing it first by doing something like:
brew install dbus
Then, try installing dbus-python by running
pip install dbus-python
In order to run the dbus daemon do brew services start dbus as said in the documentation.
Based on the pastebin Captain Jack Sparrow provided it appears dbus-python's configure script doesn't like Homebrew's install of Python (which it needs to compile the dbus C extension module against), so I don't think it's even getting this far, but to successfully build dbus-python I'm pretty sure you'd need both dbus-glib and the main dbus package.
brew install dbus dbus-glib
There's also this note from Homebrew's Python docs, which may help solve the configure-script problems:
Since the system Python may not know which compiler flags to set when building bindings for software installed by Homebrew, you may need to run:
CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix)/lib" pip install <package>
Oh, yes, and since the configure script is clearly using pkg-config to detect the dbus install, setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the location where Homebrew will install dbus-1.pc is a good idea, too.
So, a full working install might require:
brew install dbus dbus-glib
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix)/lib/pkgconfig" \
CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix)/lib" \
pip install dbus-python
