Bugs item #1437785, was opened at 2006-02-24 00:59 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1437785&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: XML Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Problems w/ expat 1.95.7 vs. Python 2.4 Initial Comment: This may apply to the trunk as well... Today I finished installing 2.4.2 and all our local libraries at work. Trying out the main application I use I discovered Python segfaulting when trying to import pyexpat. It turned out that during the import an earlier module (gtk.glade) also wanted libexpat. Apparently pyexpat was expecting to get Expat 1.95.8 (what's delivered with Python) but got 1.95.7 instead (what we had installed and what was already linked with all our other Expat-using code). The solution was rather simple. I just commented out those constants in the pyexpat initialization that were marked as 1.95.8. Fortunately there was a comment identifying the version dependency. Is there some way that Python's build process can detect the Expat version and conditionally include/exclude bits that are for later versions? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-03-03 18:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 I don't understand the problem. The build process should have picked-up the Python-provided expat, and should have ignored the system-installed one in all places (compiling, linking, running). What was the specific sequence of commands that you entered, what what the output you got, and what output would you have expected instead? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1437785&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
