problem with pirxx

[Markus Jais]

hello
thanks for your  tip.
this seems to be the problem.
I set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH and now it works,
that is, it crashes with another error, but the programm start
so it seems to be an error in the test script

markus

Paul Boddie wrote:

> "Markus Jais" <mjais at web.de> wrote in message
> news:<pan.2001.10.22.15.28.23.449.864 at web.de>...
>> hello,
>> I installed the latest version of pirxx on my Suse 7.1 with python 2.1
>> when I call the testscript I get the following error:
>> 
>> $ python test.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "test.py", line 15, in ?
>>     from pirxx import _pirxx
>> ImportError: shared object not open
>> 
>> I am quite new to python and have never seen such an error.
>> can anybody help??
> 
> I don't think I've ever seen that exact error, but I would suspect
> that your dynamic linker can't find the _pirxx.so or _pirxxmodule.so
> shared library. I'm about to check out pirxx in the next few days, so
> I might be able to comment further once I've installed it.
> 
> However, you should make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
> variable includes the directory where such a shared library can be
> found, or that your linker's configuration is set up for that
> directory; at this point, it becomes more of a Linux configuration
> issue, really.
> 
> Paul