[Pythonmac-SIG] non-framework Python 2.5.2 has empty lib-dynload

[Gary Poster]

More notes on this.

(1)

--disable-toolbox-glue did not help:

./configure --prefix=/Users/gary/opt/py25 LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib  
OPT=-I/opt/local/include --disable-toolbox-glue

(...this then led to the same problem I reported before, eventually).

(2)

Looking at the ``make install`` output, it seems the .so files went  
into ~/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages, rather than where I had  
requested:

copying build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/cmath.so -> /Users/gary/Library/ 
Python/2.5/site-packages

This seems like the best clue, but I wasn't able to take it anywhere  
myself.

(3)

I decided to doublecheck my PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH environment  
variables

imposter:Python-2.5.2 gary$ echo $PYTHONHOME

imposter:Python-2.5.2 gary$ echo $PYTHONPATH

I then did a quick glance at ``env``: nothing seemed amiss.

Will look more as I have time.

Gary

On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Gary Poster wrote:
> Hi.  I'm assuming this is a python-on-mac oddity, but maybe I'm wrong.
>
> I wanted a local non-framework build of Python 2.5.2.  I did the  
> following in a Python 2.5.2 source download:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/Users/gary/opt/py25 LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib  
> OPT=-I/opt/local/include
> make
> make install
>
> (The LDFLAGS and OPT are there to get readline and zlib from Darwin  
> Ports in the Python.)
>
> I got some warnings about expat, but nothing serious during  
> configure and make.
>
> But oddly, /Users/gary/opt/py25/library/python2.5/lib-dynload was  
> completely empty.  So, for instance, I couldn't do basic things like  
> ``import math``.
>
> I then did make test.  A few unrelated things failed--expat related,  
> for instance--but most tests passed, including math tests.  In fact,  
> the .so files were in the build directory.
>
> I then did the following:
>
> ln build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/*.so ~/opt/py25/lib/python2.5/lib- 
> dynload/
>
> Now everything seems to work. :-D :-/
>
> Anybody know if I did something wrong?  Or is this a bug in the  
> Python 2.5 build?  I couldn't find a similar report with Google, but  
> maybe I wasn't looking in the right metaphorical corner.
>
> Gary
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