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title: "Stumbling through compiling Standalone ZODB for Mac OS X"
date: 2003-01-02T01:30:54-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/01/02/ooocgb/
author: Les Orchard
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# 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 <a href="http://www.zope.org/Products/StandaloneZODB" target="_top">Standalone ZODB</a>).
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Line 62 of <code>/usr/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile</code> reads:
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<code>LDFLAGS=        -arch i386 -arch ppc</code>
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But, I <strong>think</strong> should read:
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<code>LDFLAGS=        -arch ppc</code>
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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.
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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 <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RDF">RDF</a> support.
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            <div class="content">you mean .../config/Makefile</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221088617" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-01-02T02:05:34">2003-01-02T02:05:34</time></a>
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            <div class="content">D'oht!  Why yes, you are correct!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">by the way, thanks for finding the problem I was looking for -- at the time I was looking for it. independently.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">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?</div>
            
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            <div class="content">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.</div>
            
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