Unable to install GDAL in python 3 using pip (clang failed with exit status 1)

Question

After running sudo pip3.4 install gdal from terminal (Mac OS X Mavericks) I obtain an error message saying that the 'col_port.h' file was not found and displaying the following error: command '/user/bin/clang/ failed with exit status 1 (the full message is below).

I have gdal 1.11 (the complete framework version downloaded from kingchaos.com) and the most recent version of the Xcode command line tools -Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)

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Here is the error that I get after running the sudo pip3.4 install gdal command:

/usr/bin/clang -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror=declaration-after-statement -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -I../../port -I../../gcore -I../../alg -I../../ogr/ -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/include/python3.4m -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.11/include -c extensions/gdal_wrap.cpp -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-3.4/extensions/gdal_wrap.o
extensions/gdal_wrap.cpp:2230:11: warning: explicitly assigning a variable of type 'int' to itself [-Wself-assign]
                    res = SWIG_AddCast(res);
                    ~~~ ^              ~~~
extensions/gdal_wrap.cpp:2233:11: warning: explicitly assigning a variable of type 'int' to itself [-Wself-assign]
                    res = SWIG_AddCast(res);
                    ~~~ ^              ~~~
extensions/gdal_wrap.cpp:2535:22: warning: unused variable 'swig_empty_runtime_method_table' [-Wunused-variable]
  static PyMethodDef swig_empty_runtime_method_table[] = { {NULL, NULL, 0, NULL} };/* Sentinel */
                     ^
extensions/gdal_wrap.cpp:2855:10: fatal error: 'cpl_port.h' file not found
#include "cpl_port.h"
         ^

3 warnings and 1 error generated.
error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit status 1

Answer 1

The solution was to use homebrew and, after that, run pip3.4

brew install GDAL

and, once installed,

pip3.4 install gdal