[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 35, Issue 143

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Jun 26 22:51:11 CEST 2006 

Python-Dev is about Python the language and its development.  Questions on
its use (and build) should be posted elsewhere (I would try comp.lang.python
).

-Brett

On 6/26/06, J. Jeffrey Close <jjeffreyclose at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying for some time to build Python 2.4.x
> from source on OS X 10.4.6.  I've found *numerous*
> postings on various mailing lists and web pages
> documenting the apparently well-known problems of
> doing so.  Various problems arise either in the
> ./configure step, with configure arguments that don't
> work, or in the compile, or in my case in the link
> step with libtool.
>
> The configure options I'm using are the following:
> --enable-framework --with-pydebug --with-debug=yes
> --prefix=/usr --with-dyld --program-suffix=.exe
> --enable-universalsdk
>
> I've managed to get past configure and can compile
> everything, but in the link I get the error "Undefined
> symbols:  ___eprintf" .  This appears to have
> something to do with dynamic library loading not
> properly pulling in libgcc.  I've tried with -lgcc in
> the LD options, but that produces a configure error
> "cannot compute sizeof...".
>
> If I remove "--enable-framework" the complete build
> works, but unfortunately that is the one critical
> element that I need.
>
> The web pages I've found referring to this range from
> 2001 to present -- still apparently everybody is
> having problems with this.  Does *anybody* here have
> Python built from source on this OS?
>
> Jeff
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> >    1. Re: ImportWarning flood (Nick Coghlan)
> >    2. Re: ImportWarning flood (Ralf W.
> > Grosse-Kunstleve)
> >    3. Re: 2.5b1 Windows install (Nick Coghlan)
> >    4. Re: ImportWarning flood (Michael Hudson)
> >    5. Re: ImportWarning flood (A.M. Kuchling)
> >    6. Re: ImportWarning flood (Benji York)
> >    7. Re: Simple Switch statement (Michael Urman)
> >    8. Re: ImportWarning flood (Nick Coghlan)
> >    9. Re: Simple Switch statement (Guido van Rossum)
> >   10. Re: pypy-0.9.0: stackless,   new extension
> > compiler
> >       (Carl Friedrich Bolz)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:27:03 +1000
> > From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood
> > To: Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> > Cc: python-dev at python.org
> > Message-ID: <449FB677.9040505 at gmail.com>
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> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > On 6/24/06, Jean-Paul Calderone
> > <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> > >>> Actually, your application *was* pretty close to
> > being broken a few
> > >>> weeks ago, when Guido wanted to drop the
> > requirement that a package
> > >>> must contain an __init__ file. In that case,
> > "import math" would have
> > >>> imported the directory, and given you an empty
> > package.
> > >> But this change was *not* made, and afaict it is
> > not going to be made.
> > >
> > > Correct. We'll stick with the warning. (At least
> > until Py3k but most
> > > likely also in Py3k.)
> >
> > Perhaps ImportWarning should default to being
> > ignored, the same way
> > PendingDeprecationWarning does?
> >
> > Then -Wd would become 'the one obvious way' to debug
> > import problems, since it
> > would switch ImportWarning on without drowning you
> > in a flood of import
> > diagnostics the way -v can do.
> >
> > Import Errors could even point you in the right
> > direction:
> >
> >  >>> import mypackage.foo
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > ImportError: No module named mypackage.foo
> >      Diagnostic import warnings can be enabled with
> > -Wd
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> > --
> > Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |
> > Brisbane, Australia
> >
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> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:41:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: "Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood
> > To: python-dev at python.org
> > Message-ID:
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> >
> > --- "Martin v. L???wis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > > So spend some of the money to come up with an
> > alternate solution for
> > > 2.5b2. With a potential damage of a million
> > dollars, it shouldn't be
> > > too difficult to provide a patch by tomorrow,
> > right?
> >
> > My share is only 10 man hours, payed for by the US
> > government at a scientist
> > salary. :-)
> >
> > A simple patch with a start is attached. Example:
> >
> > % ./python
> > Python 2.5b1 (r25b1:47027, Jun 26 2006, 03:15:33)
> > [GCC 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
> > more information.
> > >>> import foo
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > ImportError: No module named foo
> >   Note that subdirectories are searched for imports
> > only if they contain an
> >   __init__.py file. See the section on "Packages" in
> > the Python tutorial for
> >   details (http://www.python.org/doc/tut/).
> > >>>
> >
> >
> > The "No module named" message is repeated in these
> > files (2.5b1 tree):
> >
> > ./Demo/imputil/knee.py
> > ./Lib/ihooks.py
> > ./Lib/modulefinder.py
> > ./Lib/xmlcore/etree/ElementTree.py
> > ./Lib/runpy.py
> > ./Lib/imputil.py
> >
> > If there is a consenus, I'd create a new exception
> > ImportErrorNoModule(name)
> > that is used consistently from all places. This
> > would ensure uniformity of the
> > message in the future.
> >
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:46:57 +1000
> > From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5b1 Windows install
> > To: Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>
> > Cc: Python-Dev <python-dev at python.org>
> > Message-ID: <449FBB21.7050508 at gmail.com>
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> > Aahz wrote:
> > > Has anyone else tried doing an admin install with
> > "compile .py files"
> > > checked?  It's causing my install to blow up, but
> > I'd prefer to assume
> > > it's some weird Windows config/bug unless other
> > people also have it, in
> > > which case I'll file an SF report.
> >
> > I tried this deliberately with b1 because it was
> > broken in one of the alphas.
> > It worked fine for me this time (installing over the
> > top of alpha 2).
> >
> > I think there were some bad .py files around that
> > caused the breakage in the
> > earlier alpha - could those have been lying around
> > in your install directory?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
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