On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:45, Stefan Behnel wrote: <snip>
When building lxml, please move any installed Cython versions out of the way and run the build on the unpacked lxml-2.0.tar.gz release sources. It must say "trying to build without Cython" at the beginning.
Slight difference here Cython 0.9.6.11 and lxml from current trunk.
Please provide the following information:
what package management system (fink/macports) do you use?
are you using the stock Python or one that is installed separately?
what library versions are you using of libxml2, libxslt, zlib,
libiconv?
- which library versions are preinstalled on your platform? (I do not know how to find that out, can anyone provide
instructions here?)
With tiger the preinstalled libraries are
lxml2: 2.6.16 lxslt: 1.1.11
To get this information just run
/usr/bin/xml2-config --version /usr/bin/xslt-config --version
Leopard should have newer libraries but I have no machine right now to check that.
- what library versions does lxml.etree find? (see below)
The OS is Macosx Tiger 10.4.11 Python is version 2.5.1 universal binary from www.python.org package management for (libxml2, libxslt) is macports
TESTED VERSION: 2.0.0-51232 Python: (2, 5, 1, 'final', 0) lxml.etree: (2, 0, 0, 51232) libxml used: (2, 6, 31) libxml compiled: (2, 6, 31) libxslt used: (1, 1, 22) libxslt compiled: (1, 1, 22)
All libraries are universal built libraries from macports and linked dynamically. I have not tried static, since macports by default ONLY compiles dynamic libraries and everyhing seems to be working fine for me.
Just in case there are people who actually have a working installation,
- has anyone successfully built lxml statically against libxml2/
libxslt?
As said before dynamically linked only.
- does it work reliably? (see "Testing" below)
ot-test runs through without any crashes. Threads 7-9 throw exceptions though, as you said.
- did you build with the --without-threads option?
- does it work with *and* without that option?
Dynamically linked only
- has anyone managed to get lxml working reliably (see "Testing"
below) with a dynamic build?
- did you set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH?
- is DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH required for you or does it work without?
- is there anything special you did to make it work?
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set at all. All I had to do for lxml to find the correct libraries was to make sure that xml2-config and xslt-config from my macports installation is found BEFORE the stock versions in /usr/bin. This way etree links against the correct libraries.
- if there are crashes, is the install unusable or are there things
you can still do reliably?
No crashes at all.
If you need any more information just tell me.
Kind regards, Michael