Hi there,
I just found out that there is a hidden incompatibility in the compiled versions of lxml eggs we provide, at least in linux. Our provided versions are compiled with a Python that has 4 bytes unicode support (probably the default on ubuntu on which I built the 2.4 extension).
If you try to install such an egg on a machine where unicode support is compiled with 2 bytes only, it'll fail with errors such as:
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lxml-1.0.2-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/lxml/etree.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromEncodedObject
I wonder whether there's anything within the egg distribution mechanism that lets us distinguish between such platforms. If not, I wonder what to do instead -- the simplest would be to add a FAQ entry and tell people to recompile from the sources.
By the way, does Pyrex generate different C code depending on whether 4 or 2 byte unicode is used? If so, then that would mean an installation of pyrex as well for these people...
Regards,
Martijn