title: Python audiolab install, unable to install (or find) libsndfile on Mac OSX
body: <p>Trying to install scikits.audiolab-0.11.0 on Mac, bit it requires libsndfile: <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/">http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/</a>. I did install libsndfile supposedly, using libsndfile_python-1.0.0-py2.7-macosx10.5.mpkg, but the audiolab setup gives an error: libsndfile library not found. The error from the audiolab installer is below. It suggests that the location of the libsndfile can be specified in the site.cfg. </p>
  
  <p>My inexperience with these type of installs are getting in the way of understanding this. Can anyone offer some advice on how to get this done?, or answer my questions below?</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>If the libsndfile was installed, where would it be, so I can specify the location? Else how to install it properly?</li>
  <li>What is the site.cfg file? I see a site.cfg.bdist_wininst, and a site.cfg.win32 in the scikits.audiolab-0.11.0 folder that I downloaded.</li>
  <li>What is meant by "specified in the site.cfg file in section [sndfile]" (see error below). Does this mean that I should replace the word "sndfile" with the /path/to/libsndfile between the brackets?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>By the way, I checked in my /usr/lib dir and there is no libsndfile. I take it that there is where the audiolab setup will look for the file, by default. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for reading, and any help.</p>
  
  <p>Error from audiolab installer:</p>
  
  <pre><code>numpy.distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: sndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/) library not found.
  Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the
  site.cfg file, in section [sndfile].
  </code></pre>