[Zope] Error starting zope - undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsEncodedString

[John Schinnerer]

John Schinnerer wrote:
> 
> 
> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On 20. Juni 2007 21:58:18 -1000 John Schinnerer 
>> <john at eco-living.net> wrote:
>>> 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...?
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> If you install Python using
>>
>>  configure --prefix=/opt/python-2.4; make;make install
>>
>> and configure Zope using
>>
>>  configure --with-python=/opt/python-2.4/bin/python2.4; make; make 
>> install
>>
>> you should never get into such trouble. Somehow your environment or setup
>> must be broken. Possibly you're installing Zope over an existing Zope 
>> installation with possibly old zopectl/runzope files inside the 'bin' 
>> folder
>> which won't be replaced by "make install". So check the "python" 
>> configuration within your bin/zopectl|runzope files.
> 
> Thanks again - the above is what I thought I did (matching the --prefix 
> and the --with-python) - however somewhere I blew it somehow as the 
> control files point to the wrong python.
> I'll try again and hopefully get it right. Thanks for the extra assist.

Well, I'm not crazy. I just rebuilt it all and triple checked that I 
gave the matching --with-python when configuring the zope build. I did.
And, it did not get used...the zopectl and runzope files were created 
with the default path (to the wrong python) anyhow!

So I fixed that manually, and now (after fixing some perms issues) it 
starts up OK.

thanks again,
John S.

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