Re: [Pyobjc-dev] New beta release for pyobjc: 2.2b2

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 26 May, 2009, at 20:25, Ron Garret wrote:

>
> On May 26, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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>> On 26 May, 2009, at 19:29, Ron Garret wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 26, 2009, at 2:59 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've just pushed out a new beta release for PyObjC 2.2. This  
>>>> version should install without problems using "easy_install  
>>>> pyobjc==2.2b2", and fixes some other smallish issues as well.
>>>>
>>>> Support for OSX 10.4 is still fairly minimal: pyobjc-core and a  
>>>> number of framework wrappers do build on Tiger, but there are a  
>>>> lot of test failures (although a large subset of those are caused  
>>>> by issues in the test framework).
>>>>
>>>> Support for OSX 10.6 is non-existant for now due to the obvious  
>>>> reason ;-)
>>>
>>> It still doesn't work for me (on an Macbook Pro (Intel) running  
>>> 10.5.7):
>>>
>>> [ron@mickey:~]$ sudo easy_install pyobjc==2.2b2
>>> Searching for pyobjc==2.2b2
>>> Best match: pyobjc 2.2b2
>>> Processing pyobjc-2.2b2-py2.6.egg
>>> pyobjc 2.2b2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
>>>
>>> Using /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
>>> python2.6/site-packages/pyobjc-2.2b2-py2.6.egg
>>> Processing dependencies for pyobjc==2.2b2
>>> Searching for pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver==2.2b2
>>> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver/
>>> Reading http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net
>>> Best match: pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver 2.2b2
>>> Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver-2.2b2.tar.gz#md5 
>>> =bff19c85e265409701c684f463e16c78
>>> Processing pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver-2.2b2.tar.gz
>>> Running pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver-2.2b2/setup.py -q bdist_egg -- 
>>> dist-dir /var/folders/nT/nTiypn-v2RatkU+BYncrKU+++TI/-Tmp-/ 
>>> easy_install-1khDIF/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver-2.2b2/egg-dist- 
>>> tmp-Sy04w1
>>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/ 
>>> distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option:  
>>> 'options'
>>> warnings.warn(msg)
>>> ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/ 
>>> libTIFF.dylib, file is not of required architecture for  
>>> architecture ppc
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/nT/nTiypn-v2RatkU+BYncrKU 
>>> +++TI/-Tmp-//ccNC2XJP.out (No such file or directory)
>>> error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with  
>>> exit status 1
>>
>>
>> You have non-universal libraries in /usr/local, but I don't  
>> understand why this is a problem because that library shouldn't be  
>> used at all.
>>
>> What's even more odd is that python tries to compile at all, there  
>> are binary eggs available for python2.6.
>>
>> Ronald
>
> I'm not quite sure what to make of this response.  It seems to me  
> that if a Python library is trying to find a PPC binary on an Intel  
> machine that's a bug in the Python library.  Also it's looking in  
> the MacOSX10.4u.sdk directory, but this machine is running 10.5 (. 
> 7), which seems like another bug.

The compiler isn't that smart. If the linker looks for a library and  
stops at the first filename that matches without looking if it is for  
the right architecture. That means that if you happen to have a PPC  
library in /usr/local/lib and the compiler was actually looking for an  
intel one the search stops at the PPC library and you get a link error.

If you have installed Python using the installer from the python.org  
site the situation is slightly more complicated: that installs a  
universal binary, which is a fat binary that contains both intel and  
ppc versions of the code. This means that all libraries that get  
linked into extensions must also be universal binaries and if they  
aren't you'll get link errors.

>
> So... is this a bug, or am I doing something stupid?  If it's a bug,  
> am I the only person encountering it?  Can I do anything to help fix  
> it?

Can you manually download the source archive of pyobjc-framework- 
ScreenSaver from pypi.python.org and sent me the result of "python2.6  
setup.py install.  I'd also like to see the output of "file /usr/local/ 
lib/libTIFF.dylib", "python2.6 -c 'import distutils.util; print  
distutils.util.get_platform()' and 'python2.6 -V'.  And finally: how  
did you install python, from source or using a binary installer?

Please sent this information off-list because it isn't relevant for  
most readers.

Ronald

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> rg
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