[Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing CVS module kinds

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Louis Pecora wrote:

> I installed 2.4.1 from Bob (easy), but it was missing Numeric.  I
> installed that, but that was missing the "kinds" module which my code
> imports.  Robert Kern kindly informed me that kinds is no longer a  
> part
> of Numeric, but I could get it from CVS and he showed me how (which is
> good since I haven't a clue when things get this deep in the modules
> distribution and installation).
>
> However, after getting kinds and running setup.py I get the following
> message:
>
> /tmp/501/Cleanup\ At\ Startup/57993.command; exit
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/Users/louispecora/Code/python/AddedPackagesfiles/kinds/Test/ 
> test.py",
> line 3, in ?
>     import unittest, kinds, sys
>   File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/ 
> site-packages/kinds/__init__.py",
> line 2, in ?
>     from kinds import *
>   File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/ 
> site-packages/kinds/kinds.py",
> line 2, in ?
>     import _kinds
> ImportError: Failure linking new module: : dyld: /usr/local/bin/python
> Undefined symbols:
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/ 
> site-packages/kinds/_kinds.so
> undefined reference to ___gxx_personality_v0 expected to be defined  
> in a
> dynamic image
>
> Exit 1
> logout
> [Process completed]
>
> It appears that Python is finding kinds, but something else (involving
> gxx whatever?) is missing.  Anyone know what's happening and, better,
> how to get it working?

It looks like you compiled _kinds.so with one version of gcc, but the  
Numeric you installed is using another.  The Numeric from  
pythonmac.org was compiled with the latest Xcode toolchain for Mac OS  
X 10.3.  Perhaps you need to either compile your own Numeric, and/or  
update your toolchain?

-bob