[Zope] Zope on Mac OS X 10.2.6 with Puthon 2.2.3

[Ria Marinussen]

Hi Simon,

I had a similar problem when compiling Zope (version 2.4.x) on a Sun Solaris
operating system. 
I needed to compile zope because I wanted Zope to use a previously installed
python, with which I could compile a db-connector for zope. Because there
was allso a compiled version available I was able to trick my zope
compilation.

This was the trick:

I copied the Splitter '.c' file for backup.
Then I emptied the one in the zope source completely.
The I started compiling zope. The compilation succeeded with no problems.
But the resulting Splitter .so file was not correct  or created (I forgot
the exact result).
After that I replaced the Splitter .so file from my own compilation with the
one that was in the compiled version for my OS and everything worked fine.

The problem seemed to be an error in the Splitter '.c' file with a
particular distribution on a particular OS. With Zope 2.5.1 I didn't have
this problem anymore.

I hope this workaround is works for you too!

Greetings,

Ria Marinussen

Webmaster EEMCS - department Computer Science
University of Twente,
The Netherlands

> Message: 43
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:00:46 +0100
> From: Simon Forster <simon-lists@ldml.com>
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Zope on Mac OS X 10.2.6 with Puthon 2.2.3
> 
> Hi
> 
> Complete novice when it comes to Python and Zope - but I've decided  
> that it's time to learn.
> 
> For those of you who don't like to read subject lines, 
> environment is  
> Mac OS X 10.2.6. I've followed Jens' instructions "Zope and 
> Python on  
> Mac OS X 10.1 and higher" and see a failure when building Zope. The  
> error thrown is:
> 
> building  
> 'Products.PluginIndexes.TextIndex.Splitter.ISO_8859_1_Splitter
> .ISO_8859_ 
> 1_Splitter' extension
> error: file  
> 'Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/src/ 
> ISO_8859_1_Splitter.c' does not exist
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "wo_pcgi.py", line 45, in ?
>      if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv[0])
>    File "wo_pcgi.py", line 33, in main
>      import build_extensions
>    File "/usr/local/source/Zope-2.6.1-src/inst/build_extensions.py",  
> line 24, in ?
>      do('%s setup.py build_ext -i' % sys.executable)
>    File "/usr/local/source/Zope-2.6.1-src/inst/do.py", line 32, in do
>      if i and picky: raise SystemError, i
> SystemError: 256
> 
> Would someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Failing 
> that, until  
> I'm better at paddling in the Python/Zope pool, would someone 
> point me  
> in the vague direction of where I should be looking to fix 
> this problem.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Simon Forster
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