Andreas Jung wrote:
--On 20. Juni 2007 21:03:20 -1000 John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
Aloha,
I have just attempted my first zope install using a python built from source and am getting an error traceback ending with:
undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsEncodedString
...when I try to start zope (full traceback at end of msg).
The story: I need to get a zope 2.8.8 up and running on debian Etch (4.0) and python 2.3.x is not available as debian package on Etch. So...
I got the python 2.3.6 tarball from python.org, followed the build instructions and amazingly enough got it built and installed. I already have python 2.4 so I made sure to put 2.3 in its' own path.
Then I got zope 2.8.8 tarball and built that, using the '--with-python=' option to specify my python 2.3 installation (/usr/local/bin/python2.3 FWIW).
The zope build seemed to complete fine also. However when trying to start zope 2.8.8 I get the undefined symbol error. The most relevant info I could google up is here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/zope/users/208596
I get that there may be some issue with the two build processes and something called UCS4 vs. UCS2 mixed up somehow. The rest, like how that happened and/or how to fix it, is way over my head.
Can anyone clarify the UCS2/UCS4 issue and how to resolve it?
You have definitely some Python module somewhere in our sys.path or PYTHONPATH compiled against a different Python version....trible check that.
Thanks...I have no idea how to do that unfortunately. This is the first time I've built python from source. I just followed the build instructions in the tarball and "it worked." At least, I have a working python 2.3 in the location I specified for "--with-python" when building zope. From various list messages about this same error message I get that there is some mismatch involving UCS2 vs. UCS4 compiled pieces - if I grok correctly...? I have no idea what controls that and saw nothing about it in the python or zope build docs. I previously had zope 2.8.8 running on debian Sarge with the packaged python 2.3 no problem. So...onwards...somehow... John S. -- John Schinnerer, MA WSD ------------------------------------------ - Eco-Living - Whole Systems Design Services People - Place - Learning - Integration john@eco-living.net http://eco-living.net