Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Problems using PyOpenGL-2.0.1.04 on Mac OS X

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On zaterdag, mei 10, 2003, at 18:31 Europe/Amsterdam, Evan Jones wrote:

> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 16:46 Canada/Eastern, Mike C. Fletcher  
> wrote:
>> I'm out of my depth here, having never tried to compile anything on a  
>> Mac, so I'd suggest asking on the mac python list if you don't get it  
>> working.  In particular, Jack Jansen probably can help, as I believe  
>> he's been building it fairly regularly on OS-X.
>
> Bingo. That was the clue I needed. Here's a link that will be useful  
> for others out there:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2003-February/ 
> 007213.html

Glad you found it! I knew I got it working, but I had completely  
forgotten how (2.3- has been my standard platform for ages).
>
> The bug is basically that OS X won't load two .so's with the same  
> name. I found a binary build that uses Fink's version of Python and  
> life is good. So in short, I hope that either Apple fixes this bug  
> with their dynamic linker, or else that someone hacks PyOpenGL to name  
> all the modules "DirName__init__.so".

Don't worry: the problem is gone with Python 2.3. It is caused by the  
way .so's are loaded into a single namespace for Python 2.2, and this  
can't be fixed in the 2.2.X series as there are some packages that  
depend on this bug.
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