I believe I ran into this before, but I didn't document it properly so I'm doomed to repeat it. (I'll document it this time!)
I have an app that is running fine (and py2app is building it fine) on Tiger. I'm working on getting a Panther build put together. On both Tiger and Panther, I'm using Bob's unofficial official Python 2.4.1. I'm using PyObjC 1.3.7 (downloaded the package for Panther, built from source for Tiger), and the included py2app (0.2.1). I'm using the embedded version of the Firebird database, and that is where the problem is coming in. I built Firebird myself on both Tiger and Panther. I've looked at /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework in both and they look the same. So, now to what the problem is... Looking through py2app's output, the first framework copied is Firebird.framework, picked up as a dependency of kinterbasdb. As py2app continues copying stuff over, it eventually hits linking /Users/tazzzzz/projects/app/dist/myapp.app/Contents/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Firebird -> Versions/Current/Firebird which runs into this problem: File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py2app/py2app/build_app.py", line 1064, in copy_tree condition=condition) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py2app/py2app/util.py", line 351, in copy_tree os.symlink(link_dest, dst_name) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py2app/py2app/util.py(351)copy_tree() Look at what's in myapp.app, the Firebird.framework in there doesn't have a Versions/Current yet. It does, however, have a Firebird at the top of the framework directory, which is not a symlink but the real file. In my Tiger build, that Firebird at the top is a symlink to Versions/Current/Firebird, which is also the case in /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework on both machines. I seem to remember seeing this problem when I first started using Firebird, and I really wish I had written down how the problem was solved. I did a clean checkout and build under Tiger to ensure that the two OSes are really running the same things. Any ideas? Thanks! Kevin _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig