[Pythonmac-SIG] Building python 2.4.3 on OSX 10.3.9

[Michael Glassford]

Here's what I think happened:

Before I realized XCode wasn't installed, I installed QuickTime7SDK, and 
CoreAudioSDK (both to solve specific errors). Then I installed XCode 
1.5, which appeared to replace the QuickTime.framework version 7 with 
version 6, but didn't touch QTKit.framework (because it didn't know 
about it, presumably). The mixture of Quicktime 6 and 7 headers 
apparently was causing the errors; reinstalling QuickTime7SDK appears to 
have fixed that problem, as I was able to build PyObjC with warnings but 
no errors.




As an FYI:

The original reason for trying to build my own Python 2.4 on Mac OSX 
10.3.9 was that the one installed by the universal binary Python 2.4 
installer has the problem that when I "import bz2" I get the error

"""
ImportError: Failure linking new module: /usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib: 
dyld: 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python 
can't open library: /usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib  (No such file or 
directory, errno = 2)
"""

It appears that it did in fact fix this problem.




Now I have the two more problems:

1) The PyObjC unit test give me the following two failures (which I 
haven't had time to investigate much, yet):

======================================================================
FAIL: testSignatureCount (objc.test.test_splitsig.SplitSignatureTest)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/objc/test/test_splitsig.py", 
line 95, in testSignatureCount
     '%s [%d:%d] %r %r'%(sel.selector, argcount, coloncount, elems, cls))
AssertionError: didChangeValueForKey: [2:1] ('v', '@', ':', '@', '@') 
<objective-c class _PyObjCCopying_NSObject at 0x2963280>

======================================================================
FAIL: testOverrideDealloc (objc.test.test_subclass.TestOverridingSpecials)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"build/lib.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/objc/test/test_subclass.py", 
line 296, in testOverrideDealloc
     self.assertEquals(len(aList), 2)
AssertionError: 0 != 2

----------------------------------------------------------------------

2) When I run python (either the one I built, from 
/usr/local/bin/python2.4, or the one installed by the universal binary 
installer at 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/python2.4), and 
"import appscript", for example, I get this error:


"""
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/appscript/__init__.py", 
line 16, in ?
     from specifier import app, CommandError
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/appscript/specifier.py", 
line 9, in ?
     import aem
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/aem/__init__.py", line 
25, in ?
     from send import *
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/aem/send/__init__.py", 
line 90, in ?
     raise RuntimeError, "Can't send Apple events: no access to Window 
Manager. (aem-based scripts must be run within a GUI process; e.g. use 
'pythonw', not 'python', if running script in shell)"
RuntimeError: Can't send Apple events: no access to Window Manager. 
(aem-based scripts must be run within a GUI process; e.g. use 'pythonw', 
not 'python', if running script in shell)
"""

If I run /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/pythonw2.4, I 
get the same error.

What could make this not work properly?



Mike



Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2006, at 7:41 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> Michael Glassford <glassfordm at hotmail.com> (MG) wrote:
>>>> MG> I've found references online to similar problems when
>>>> QuickTime 7 is
>>>> MG> installed on OS X 10.3.9 (which is the case here), but no
>>>> solutions. I'd
>>>> MG> gladly downgrade to an earlier version of QuickTime if I knew
>>>> how (I'm
>>>> MG> not using QuickTime), but haven't discovered any way to do it.
>>> Did you (re)install the QuickTime SDK *after* installing QuickTime
>>> 7? That
>>> might help.
>> No, that's not going to help. QtKit didn't even exist for 10.3,
>> PyObjC shouldn't be trying to build it on that platform.
> 
> That's what I thought as well. Gues what I found in /System/Library/ 
> Frameworks? sw_vers claims this is a 10.3.9 system (completely up-to- 
> date according to sofwareupdate), and yet it has QTKit.framework.
> 
> BTW. PyObjC builds completely fine on this system, including the  
> QTKit bindings.
> 
> Ronald
> 
>> Comment it out of the setup.py or something.
>>
>> -bob
>>
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