[Pythonmac-SIG] problems using py2app

[Richard Taylor]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Oct 12, 2005, at 6:07 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>
>> I am trying to use py2app (http://undefined.org/python/) to package a
>> gnome-python application called gramps (http://www.gramps- 
>> project.org) for
>> MAC OS X.
>>
>> py2app does not have a mailing list so I started by posting to
>> comp.lang.python and someone there pointed me here instead. If  
>> anyone could
>> point me in the direction of a better forum is there is one.
>>
>> The command I am running is:
>>
>>  python setup.py py2app
>>
>> The error I am getting is (the full output is attached):
>>
>>  -> raise ValueError, "New Mach-O header is too large to relocate"
>>
>> It looks like there is a problem with the number of libraries that
>> gramps depends on, but I am new to the MAC and py2app so I am not  
>> sure where
>> to turn next to overcome this problem.
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> It's only loosely related to the number of libraries.  It's somewhat  
> difficult to explain exactly why this error occurs, but it is  
> normally quite rare and there isn't much that can be done about it  
> from the py2app side of things.
>
> The solution is to re-link the libraries that are having this problem  
> with the -headerpad_max_install_names ld flag.  I think that there's  
> some way to set LDFLAGS appropriately and then use port to rebuild  
> them, but you'll have to ask someone else who knows more about the  
> DarwinPorts toolchain because I have no idea.
>
Is there any way of isolating which libraries are causing the problem? 
Rebuilding all of the libraries would be a bit of pain.

Richard