Re: pyobjc 2.3 install fails

>> error: Could not find required distribution pyobjc-core
>>
>> As far as I can tell, some part of it must be missing from pypi.  Any ideas?
> 
> That's odd, pyobjc-core is on pypi and should work just fine.
> 
> Could you try "easy_install pyobjc-core==2.3" followed running "python setup.py install" for pyobjc itself again?


I did this:

setenv PYTHONPATH     /Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages
easy_install --prefix ~/py pyobjc-core==2.3

It installed something that involved compiling a lot of C code.  During the install, there were a few things that look broken, though:


libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libxml2.a  SAX.o entities.o encoding.o error.o parserInternals.o parser.o tree.o hash.o list.o xmlIO.o xmlmemory o uri.o valid.o xlink.o HTMLparser.o HTMLtree.o debugXML.o xpath.o xpointer.o xinclude.o nanohttp.o nanoftp.o DOCBparser.o catalog.o globals o threads.o c14n.o xmlstring.o xmlregexp.o xmlschemas.o xmlschemastypes.o xmlunicode.o xmlreader.o relaxng.o dict.o SAX2.o xmlwriter.o legac .o chvalid.o pattern.o xmlsave.o xmlmodule.o schematron.o
ranlib: file: .libs/libxml2.a(SAX.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: .libs/libxml2.a(xlink.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: .libs/libxml2.a(HTMLparser.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: .libs/libxml2.a(HTMLtree.o) has no symbols
... repeats for about 20 more files ...

Later, it finds the same problem again:

libtool: install: ranlib /private/var/folders/1w/1wzkS8Y4H44BBu-c3gTR7k++2Ws/-Tmp-/easy_install-7MaF7K/pyobjc-core-2.3/build/libxml/lib/libx l2.a
ranlib: file: /private/var/folders/1w/1wzkS8Y4H44BBu-c3gTR7k++2Ws/-Tmp-/easy_install-7MaF7K/pyobjc-core-2.3/build/libxml/lib/libxml2.a(SAX.o  has no symbols
ranlib: file: /private/var/folders/1w/1wzkS8Y4H44BBu-c3gTR7k++2Ws/-Tmp-/easy_install-7MaF7K/pyobjc-core-2.3/build/libxml/lib/libxml2.a(xlink o) has no symbols
...


And later:

Modules/objc/test/properties.m:24: warning: Mac OS X version 10.5 or later is needed for use of property
Modules/objc/test/properties.m:25: warning: Mac OS X version 10.5 or later is needed for use of property
Modules/objc/test/properties.m:26: warning: Mac OS X version 10.5 or later is needed for use of property
Modules/objc/test/properties.m:27: warning: Mac OS X version 10.5 or later is needed for use of property
Modules/objc/test/properties.m:27: warning: no 'assign', 'retain', or 'copy' attribute is specified - 'assign' is assumed
Modules/objc/test/properties.m:27: warning: 'assign' attribute (default) not appropriate for non-gc object property 'prop4'


It is 10.5.  system_profiler says "System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) )"

And finally:

Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/__init__.py (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/arrays.so (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/block.so (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/cfsocket.so (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/clinmeth.so (namespace package)
... another 90-100 lines of this, some for .so and some for .py files
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/testclassandinst.so (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/testoutputinitializer.so (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/voidpointer.so (namespace package)
Adding pyobjc-core 2.3 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_core-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg
Processing dependencies for pyobjc-core==2.3
Finished processing dependencies for pyobjc-core==2.3


The easy_install step did not produce a working pyobjc:

>>> import pyobjc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pyobjc
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_core-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/distribute-0.6.10-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Jinja2-2.2.1-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Pygments-1.1.1-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Sphinx-1.0.5-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/numpydoc-0.4-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/PIL', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/
 lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-pa
ckages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info']
>>> 


So I continued with the setup.py install step:

 python setup.py install --prefix ~/py

It also skipped a lot of files:


Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/__init__.py (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/test_caanimation.py (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/test_cabase.py (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/test_cacifilteradditions.py (namespace package)
Skipping installation of build/bdist.macosx-10.4-i386/egg/PyObjCTest/test_caconstraintlayoutmanager.py (namespace package)
...

That also did not produce a working system, but I have a lot more on pythonpath:



>>> import pyobjc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pyobjc
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_core-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_ScriptingBridge-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_QTKit-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_PubSub-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_InterfaceBuilderKit-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_InstantMessage-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_InputMethodKit-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_D
 ictionaryServices-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Collaboration-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framew
ork_CalendarStore-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_XgridFoundation-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_WebKit-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_SystemConfiguration-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_SyncServices-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_SearchKit-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_ScreenSaver-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Quartz-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framewor
 k_PreferencePanes-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Message-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_La
unchServices-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_LatentSemanticMapping-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_InstallerPlugins-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_FSEvents-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_ExceptionHandling-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_CoreText-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_CoreData-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Cocoa-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framewor
 k_CFNetwork-2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Automator-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc
_framework_AppleScriptKit-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_AddressBook-2.3-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/distribute-0.6.10-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Jinja2-2.2.1-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Pygments-1.1.1-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Sphinx-1.0.5-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/numpydoc-0.4-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/PIL', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/l
 ib-tk', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/stsci/p
yssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info']


I also tried just "easy_install --prefix ~/py pyobjc==2.2"; it also did not result in a system where I could "import pyobjc".  In that instance, sys.path was:

['', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_XgridFoundation-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_WebKit-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_SystemConfiguration-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_SyncServices-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_SearchKit-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_ScreenSaver-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Quartz-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienk
 iew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_PreferencePanes-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Message-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkie
w/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_LaunchServices-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_LatentSemanticMapping-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_InstallerPlugins-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_FSEvents-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_ExceptionHandling-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_CoreText-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_CoreData-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Cocoa-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/U
 sers/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_CFNetwork-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_Automator-2.2-py2.
7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_AppleScriptKit-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_framework_AddressBook-2.2-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyobjc_core-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-i386.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/distribute-0.6.10-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Jinja2-2.2.1-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Pygments-1.1.1-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/Sphinx-1.0.5-py2.7.egg', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/numpydoc-0.4-py2.7.egg', '/Users/sienkiew/py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/2.7/PIL', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', '/usr/stsci/
 pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Pytho
n-2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/stsci/pyssg/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info']


At this point, I'm thinking there must be something odd about my system that two different versions do not work at all, even when installed with easy_install.  Unfortunately, I don't really know enough about easy_install to know what questions to ask next.  Do you have any suggestions?

Mark S.


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