[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app error with /usr/bin/strip

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 5 Feb, 2007, at 22:04, altern wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> On 5 Feb, 2007, at 18:30, Chris Van Bael wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm getting essentially the same error for some time now.
>>> Could anybody please explain what is going wrong here exactly,  
>>> because
>>> me and some other people are having the same error and re-installing
>>> py2app doesn't fix the problem.
>>>
>>> See:
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2007-January/  
>>> 018645.html
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2006-October/  
>>> 018390.html
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2006-October/  
>>> 018391.html
>>>
>>> It would be a shame that I cannot provide a universal OS X  
>>> version of
>>> our program because of this problem..
>> Could you please try to provide an example that demonstrates te   
>> problem? Without such an example there's little chance that I'll  
>> look  into this unless I happen to run into this problem myself.
>
> in my computer something as simple as just
>
> while 1: print 'looping'
>
> causes the error when trying to create an app. I also tried with  
> some other basic scripts with same results

What are the versions of py2app, macholib, altgraph, modulegraph on  
your machine? Likewise for python itself.

Just in case this is important: what version of OSX are you using, is  
it an Intel or PPC system and do you have the Developer Tools installed?

Ronald
>
> enrike
>
>
>> Ronald
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On 2/5/07, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>>>> When you see an error like that, it means there's a bug in macholib
>>>> that caused it to produce a bogus file. Turning strip off doesn't
>>>> really fix anything...
>>>>
>>>> -bob
>>>>
>>>> On 2/5/07, altern <altern2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> hi again
>>>>>
>>>>> I solved the problem by doing
>>>>> $ python setup.py py2app --no-strip
>>>>>
>>>>> I read this about strip
>>>>> --strip (-S)            strip debug and local symbols from  
>>>>> output  (on by
>>>>>                          default, for compatibility)
>>>>>
>>>>> could anyone explain a bit more about what this is? or maybe   
>>>>> point to
>>>>> somewhere i can read about it. I am interested because last  
>>>>> time  i used
>>>>> this machine i did not need to use this (only use it every now   
>>>>> and then
>>>>> for testing on OSX), so I am trying to find out what is the   
>>>>> difference
>>>>> from last time.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> enrike
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> altern wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am getting this error when trying to use py2app.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ py2applet --make-setup glut_opengl.py
>>>>>> $ python setup.py py2app
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> stripping bz2.so
>>>>>> stripping zlib.so
>>>>>> stripping _codecs_tw.so
>>>>>> stripping umath.so
>>>>>> stripping binascii.so
>>>>>> /usr/bin/strip: for architecture i386 object:
>>>>>> /Users/xxx/ixi/python/dist/glut_opengl.app/Contents/MacOS/python
>>>>>> malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in   
>>>>>> LC_UNIXTHREAD
>>>>>> command 13 can't byte swap it)
>>>>>> /usr/bin/strip: for architecture i386 object:
>>>>>> /Users/xxx/ixi/python/dist/glut_opengl.app/Contents/MacOS/  
>>>>>> glut_opengl
>>>>>> malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in   
>>>>>> LC_UNIXTHREAD
>>>>>> command 10 can't byte swap it)
>>>>>> stripping saved 8991796 bytes (7898608 / 16890404)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also tried with
>>>>>> $ python setup.py py2app --prefer-ppc
>>>>>> but i got the same error. Because of the '/usr/bin/strip: for
>>>>>> architecture i386 object' I thought it might be a problem with my
>>>>>> processor, note that I am working on an old G3 ppc ibook, I  
>>>>>> am  running
>>>>>> OS 10.4.8 and python 2.4.4, Py2app version is 0.3.5 .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Later I tried with another script, one that does not use   
>>>>>> pyOpengl, same
>>>>>> error again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> enrike
>>>>>>
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