2003 • January • 02

Stumbling through compiling Standalone ZODB for Mac OS X

Just in case this wasn't common knowledge, it seems there's a bit of a boo-boo in Jaguar's installation of Python that sticks it head up when one tries to compile extentions (like, oh say, the Standalone ZODB).

Line 62 of /usr/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile reads:

LDFLAGS= -arch i386 -arch ppc

But, I think should read:

LDFLAGS= -arch ppc

Making this change appears to have gotten the thing compiling, though it may also cause my iBook to eventually self-format since I barely understand everything involved.

Ugh, though now that everything's compiled without hitch, the test script goes belly up with a bus error. Time to go back googling to find a solution or somewhere to whine. I may also swap back into Java, since I like Jena better than anything I've found in Python for RDF support.

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Archived Comments

chuqui

2003-01-02T01:55:08

you mean .../config/Makefile
l.m.orchard

2003-01-02T02:05:34

D'oht! Why yes, you are correct!
chuqui

2003-01-02T02:34:11

by the way, thanks for finding the problem I was looking for -- at the time I was looking for it. independently.
barry

2003-01-02T03:57:27

BTW, I just did a from-source build of Python 2.2.2 and /usr/local/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile doesn't seem to have the bogus LDFLAGS entry. In fact it doesn't seem to have anything for LDFLAGS! Near as I can tell building MM2.1 from Python 2.2.2 source-distro works just fine. This looks like an Apple goof? Chuq, who manages the free software offerings for MacOSX and how would we get in touch with them?
Lee Phillips

2003-01-17T14:09:23

I went through this - trying to get ZODB standalone working on OSX. After I got the bus error, I was informed that the problem is the python version: 2.2 won't work with any part of Zope. You can either downgrade to python 2.1 (I don't want to either) or see if a more recent python will work.