Samtools MAC install error

[Panova]

Hi,

I am trying to instal samtools on MacBook Pro using this:
tar -xjvf samtools.tar.bz2
cd samtools-1.7
make
sudo make prefix=/usr/local/bin install

The following error message came up:
....
cram/cram_io.c:61:10: fatal error: 'lzma.h' file not found
#include <lzma.h>
^
1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [cram/cram_io.o] Error 1
make: *** [htslib-1.7/libhts.a] Error 2
jcsmr-027583ml:samtools-1.7 u1035854$ sudo make prefix=/usr/local/bin install


And after the last line it asked for a password. Which password?
What should I do?
thanks

[jkbonfield]

Try running ./configure;make first. Does that work? (Check the output carefully from configure too to see if it works only by dint of removing lzma support entirely!)

If it doesn't, you'll need to install to the lzma dev package; possibly xz-utils-dev or similar? I don't know what it's called on MacOS, but I think the htslib README/INSTALL file explains it all.