[Pythonmac-SIG] Psycopg2 package fails on Intel Mac

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:49 PM, jacobian.33809303 at bloglines.com wrote:

> Howdy folks --
>
> It appears that the psycopg2 package at pythonmac.org/packages
> doesn't work on (my) MacIntel:
>
>     jacob at dorkbook:~$ python
>     Python
> 2.4.3 (#1, Apr  7 2006, 10:54:33)
>     [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build
> 5250)] on darwin
>     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
> more information.
>>>> import psycopg2
>     Traceback (most recent call
> last):
>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>       File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
> python2.4/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py",
> line 60, in ?
>         from _psycopg import BINARY, NUMBER, STRING, DATETIME,
> ROWID
>     ImportError: Failure linking new module: /Library/Frameworks/ 
> Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/psycopg2/ 
> _psycopg.so:
> Symbol not found: _krb5_free_principal
>       Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ 
> Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/psycopg2/_psycopg.so
>
>       Expected in: dynamic lookup
>
> The universal packages page on the wiki
> makes it seem as if I should expect this package not to work, but  
> I'm not
> sure if that's up-to-date.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this breakage
> expected?

That's weird, I thought that was the package I was using, but it's  
not. I'll upload another one.

> Also: if someone can point me towards what's been done on psycopg2
> so far I'd happily spend some time hacking on building it from  
> source.  I've
> given it about 10 minutes and not gotten anywhere, but as long as  
> I'm not
> duplicating effort I'll keep poking.

http://initd.org/svn/psycopg/psycopg2/tags/2_0_BETA_8

Index: setup.py
===================================================================
--- setup.py    (revision 789)
+++ setup.py    (working copy)
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@

      def finalize_darwin(self):
          """Finalize build system configuration on darwin platform."""
+        self.libraries.append('krb5')
          self.libraries.append('ssl')
          self.libraries.append('crypto')

-bob