[Pythonmac-SIG] problems using py2app

[Richard Taylor]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:23 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Inspect the stack when it throws the error to see which one caused  
> the problem, repeat until you get them all.
>
Many thanks, I will give it a try.

Richard