Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Error while building

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Monday, 4 August, 2003, at 16:47, b.bum wrote:

> I had a previous version of PyObjC installed (no surprises, there :), 
> updated from CVS, and did a 'sudo python setup.py install'....
>
> And the build crashed as shown below.   After removing the previously 
> installed version of PyObjC, the installation works fine.
>
> However, this indicates that we are picking up the previously 
> installed version during the build.   That could cause wonky, 
> non-deterministic, build failures.

The CodeGenerator script tries to import objc and uses 
'objc.lookUpClass' to detect if a typename denotes a class, if objc 
cannot be imported it uses a static list for that. That static list 
must be complete if we want to support installation of a complete 
PyObjC without a prior PyObjC installation, and therefore the import of 
objc shouldn't buy us anything. I'll update the code.

Ronald