undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsUTF8String

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Michael Ströder wrote:

> HI!
> 
> I have the following problem after system upgrade to SuSE Linux 9.3:
> 
> $ python -c "import cPickle"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/cPickle.so: undefined
> symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsUTF8String
> 
> The Python 2.4.1 installation was built from source.
> 
> Anyone having a clue? Thanks in advance.

Yes - unfortunately binary extensions have to be rebuilt if you chose a
different unicode representation - ucs4 instead of ucs2. Which you most
probably didn't do on purpose. So there are two options here:

 - rebuilt python, with ucs2 as internal representation (configure option)
 - rebuilt the extensions.


-- 
Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch