Add OS X installation section to docs

Closes #1342 and (possibly) #1126
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yaourt -S scrapy
Mac OS X
--------
Building Scrapy's dependencies requires the presence of a C compiler and
development headers. On OS X this is typically provided by Apples Xcode
development tools. To install the Xcode command line tools open a terminal
window and run::
xcode-select --install
There's a `known issue <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2468>`_ that
prevents ``pip`` from updating system packages. This has to be addressed to
successfully install Scrapy and its dependencies. Here are some proposed
solutions:
* *(Recommended)* **Don't** use system python, install a new, updated version
that doesn't conflict with the rest of your system. Here's how to do it using
the `homebrew`_ package manager:
* Install `homebrew`_::
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
* Update your ``PATH`` variable to state that homebrew packages should be
used before system packages (Change ``.bashrc`` to ``.zshrc`` accordantly
if you're using `zsh`_ as default shell)::
echo "export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
* Reload ``.bashrc`` to ensure the changes have taken place::
source ~/.bashrc
* Install python::
brew install python
* Latest versions of python have ``pip`` bundled with them so you won't need
to install it separately. If this is not the case, upgrade python::
brew update; brew upgrade python
* *(Alternative)* Force system python to load the user installed packages
first:
* Update your ``PYTHONPATH`` variable (Change ``.bashrc`` to ``.zshrc``
accordantly if you're using `zsh`_ as default shell)::
echo "export PYTHONPATH=/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH" >> ~/.bashrc
* Reload ``.bashrc`` to ensure the changes have taken place::
source ~/.bashrc
* Install ``pip``::
sudo easy_install pip
After any of these workarounds you should be able to install Scrapy::
pip install Scrapy
.. _Python: https://www.python.org/
.. _pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html
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.. _OpenSSL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL
.. _setuptools: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
.. _AUR Scrapy package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/scrapy/
.. _homebrew: http://brew.sh/
.. _zsh: http://www.zsh.org/