[Pythonmac-SIG] problems using py2app

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:23 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Oct 12, 2005, at 6:07 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am trying to use py2app (http://undefined.org/python/) to  
>>> package a
>>> gnome-python application called gramps (http://www.gramps-  
>>> project.org) for
>>> MAC OS X.
>>>
>>> py2app does not have a mailing list so I started by posting to
>>> comp.lang.python and someone there pointed me here instead. If   
>>> anyone could
>>> point me in the direction of a better forum is there is one.
>>>
>>> The command I am running is:
>>>
>>>  python setup.py py2app
>>>
>>> The error I am getting is (the full output is attached):
>>>
>>>  -> raise ValueError, "New Mach-O header is too large to relocate"
>>>
>>> It looks like there is a problem with the number of libraries that
>>> gramps depends on, but I am new to the MAC and py2app so I am  
>>> not  sure where
>>> to turn next to overcome this problem.
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>
>>
>> It's only loosely related to the number of libraries.  It's  
>> somewhat  difficult to explain exactly why this error occurs, but  
>> it is  normally quite rare and there isn't much that can be done  
>> about it  from the py2app side of things.
>>
>> The solution is to re-link the libraries that are having this  
>> problem  with the -headerpad_max_install_names ld flag.  I think  
>> that there's  some way to set LDFLAGS appropriately and then use  
>> port to rebuild  them, but you'll have to ask someone else who  
>> knows more about the  DarwinPorts toolchain because I have no idea.
>>
>>
> Is there any way of isolating which libraries are causing the  
> problem? Rebuilding all of the libraries would be a bit of pain.

Inspect the stack when it throws the error to see which one caused  
the problem, repeat until you get them all.

-bob