[cx-oracle-users] cx_Oracle 4.1 crashing Python 2.3 vm under Mac OS X

[Sean P. K. <sp...@ge...>]

Anthony,

I have been trying to compile this version on Mac OS X 10.3.7 with  
Python 2.3 and have run into a  strange problem. Below is a copy of the  
session, where I build and install cx_Oracle and then try to import it.  
It crashes the python interpreter. Even though I get a few compiler  
errors, it seems that everything is actually going fine. I was able to  
use the previous version without a problem. Do you have any ideas what  
might be going on. I researched the error a bit and it mentioned that  
this can happen when something is compiled against a different version  
of Python and then the one it is being run in. I do have python 2.4 on  
the system as well, but it is in another directory and I have done some  
testing, and am reasonable sure this isn't the problem, unless there  
are some hard coded paths in the module somewhere (which seems  
unlikely).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sean

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$ sudo python setup.py build

running build
running build_ext
building 'cx_Oracle' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp  
-mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall  
-Wstrict-prototypes -I/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/demo  
-I/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public  
-I/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/network/public  
-I/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/plsql/public  
-I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/include/ 
python2.3 -c cx_Oracle.c -o  
build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/cx_Oracle.o  
-DBUILD_TIME="February 01, 2005 11:11:53"
In file included from  
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/oci.h:2327,
                  from cx_Oracle.c:9:
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/oci1.h:148: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
In file included from  
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/ociap.h:206,
                  from  
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/oci.h:2351,
                  from cx_Oracle.c:9:
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:674: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2665: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2674: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2684: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2693: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2702: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2711: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2719: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2729: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2736: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/nzt.h:2744: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
In file included from  
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/oci.h:2351,
                  from cx_Oracle.c:9:
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/ociap.h:9952: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/rdbms/public/ociap.h:9958: warning:  
function declaration isn't a prototype
creating build/lib.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3
gcc -Wl,-F. -Wl,-F. -bundle -framework Python  
build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/cx_Oracle.o  
-L/Users/spkane/oracle/OraHome_1/lib -lclntsh -o  
build/lib.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/cx_Oracle.so

$ sudo python setup.py install

running install
running build
running build_ext
running install_lib
copying build/lib.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/cx_Oracle.so ->  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
site-packages

$ python

Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import cx_Oracle
Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Abort trap

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