[gentoo-alt] Re: [Q] What's causing python on Opensolaris to fail to import modules?

[Maurice Volaski]

>On 21-06-2008 20:25:55 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
>>  I'm installing a prefix for Indiana OpenSolaris 64-bit and I'm at the
>>  point of emerging, but I'm getting an error:
>>
>>  Failed to complete python imports
>>
>>  Now I noticed that when python 2.5.2 is compiling in the bootstrap phase
>>  there are repeated warnings
>>
>>  ***WARNING: renaming "_struct" since importing it failed: ld.so.1:
>>  python: fatal: /usr/sfw/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
>>
>>  In the directory, /opt/gentoo/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload, there are
>>  are a number of failed .so files. Could this be related to the cause?
>
>Yeah for sure.
>
>I think I hit the same issue and I added a little note for it in the
>bootstrap guide.  If you're bootstrapping 64-bits, you need to have the
>64-bits paths in your searchpath, where they are non standard.
>
>It's in this line:
>
>If you are targetting a 64-bits native Prefix, append -L and -R flags
>for /usr/sfw/lib/64 to your LDFLAGS. Additionally set CC="gcc -m64",
>CXX="g++ -m64" and HOSTCC="gcc -m64".
>
>note the /usr/sfw/lib/64, it contains the 64-bits version of
>libgcc_s.so.1, that the linker should find (after skipping the
>incompatible 32-bits version).
>
>If you already did this, it looks like something weird is going on.

First, I assume the guide you mean is 
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml. 
If so, though it's not the cause of the problem, but shouldn't those 
variables be set before bootstrapping python?

Now, I had them set them when I bootstrapped python, so something 
weird is going on. I was able to get past it by moving the 32-bit 
libgcc out of the way and creating a symlink in /usr/sfw/lib to the 
64-bit version and it seems to be working.
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@××××××××.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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