Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython on OS X, steps forward and otherwise

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Dethe Elza wrote:
> On 4-Dec-06, at 3:28 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
>> Dethe Elza wrote:
>> []
>>>    python [vpython script]
>>> Which results in:
>>>    Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version  
>>> mismatch?)
>>>    Abort trap
>> Which python does your "python" command run? Is it the same as the  
>> one into whose site-packages directory the visual module was  
>> installed? And the same as used for compiling vpython and boost1.33?
> 
> /sw/bin/python is the first python in my path and points to /sw/bin/ 
> python2.5  As far as I can tell, it should be the same for all of  
> these cases.

Hmm, if you run "otool -L" on the cvisualmodule.so and on 
libboost_python.dylib, does any Python.framework or other libpython 
still show up?

>> With Fink, if you install for example the python25 package, you  
>> don't get a "python" executable, only "python2.5". You have to  
>> install additionally the "python" package which creates a symlink  
>> between /sw/bin/python2.5 and /sw/bin/python.
> 
> I already added that symlink manually.  Does the python package do  
> more than that?

Not much more; it makes additional symlinks for idle, pydoc, smtpd.py, 
and for the python.1 man page.

> I don't know if I remembered to note this in my earlier mail, but the  
> tip you gave about renaming -lboost_python to /sw/lib/ 
> libboost_python.a worked to get a working VPython, though still  
> crashing frequently.

Did you look at the crash logs in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/? Is 
there anything systematic jumping out from them?

-- 
Martin