I finally figured out a longstanding problem with my OSX binaries -
python mapscript wasn't working.
The problem comes from FastCGI support for the mapserv CGI. When
python tries to import mapscript, you get an error about libfcgi not
finding the _environ symbol (from apache?). Since I build MapServer
with a dynamic library (framework) I can't use a separate library for
mapserv and mapscript.
I tried moving cgi stuff from the library into mapserv, but I think
CGI functions are needed elsewhere also, or I just didn't go far
enough, and I couldn't get it to work.
So, given this, and the recent discussion saying that fastcgi only
provides a tiny performance gain, I removed fastcgi from my OSX
binaries. (fastcgi is also a lot more complex to setup on OSX compared
to standard CGI and the various mapscripts.)
And python mapscript now works on OSX!
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William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
http://www.kyngchaos.com/
"I ache, therefore I am. Or in my case - I am, therefore I ache."
- Marvin
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