[Zope] Installation trouble on Solaris 2.6

[tony mcdonald]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:29:17 -0500 zfrey@bright.net (Zach Frey) wrote:

>
>> Sorry, coming in late here. The Env variable you need is
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Mine is set to
>>
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/:/usr/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/lib/m
>ysql

>My base Zope installation is /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.1.4-src.  So,
>ExtensionClass.so is in /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.1.4-src/lib/python.
>My LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
>/usr/local/zope/Zope-2.1.4-src/lib/python:/usr/local/lib:/usr/openwin/lib,
>which ought to pick up ExtensionClass.so.
>

I didn't find it necessary to include the source distribution path in the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH env variable...

>Anything else which would cause the import to fail?  I tried setting
>PYTHONPATH too, in desperation, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
>

PYTHONPATH is used for telling Python where modules are. I don't think it will
help in this circumstance. 

>
>
>P.S.: I did try the binary distribution on Solaris 2.5.1, and can
>report that it doesn't work.  Zope fails to start up with an unresolved
>symbol error, so it really does require 2.6+.
>
>

Ok, so you can't use the Zope distn that has a precompiled Python bundled (it
seems).

Try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH as above and recompiling your Python source
distribution.

I know I had a real pain getting Zope-src distns running under Solaris (and
then found that our big expensive Sun Iron was half the speed - in pystones -
of my iMac! ...grrr) - but it can be done. 

HTH?
Tone