[Chandler-dev] Troubles running debug Chandler under Leopard

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Reid Ellis wrote:

> Has anyone else had any problem running a debug Chandler under Leopard? From 
> a clean checkout and "make DEBUG=1 install" I keep getting a traceback:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "Chandler.py", line 21, in <module>
>   from application import Globals, Utility
> File "/Users/rae/work/osaf/chandler/chandler/application/Globals.py", line 
> 24, in <module>
>   from application.Utility import initDefaults
> File "/Users/rae/work/osaf/chandler/chandler/application/Utility.py", line 
> 20, in <module>
>   import i18n, schema, itertools
> File "/Users/rae/work/osaf/chandler/chandler/i18n/__init__.py", line 16, in 
> <module>
>   from i18nmanager import I18nManager, I18nException
> File "/Users/rae/work/osaf/chandler/chandler/i18n/i18nmanager.py", line 17, 
> in <module>
>   from egg_translations import EggTranslations, hasCountryCode, 
> stripCountryCode
> ImportError: No module named egg_translations

When running on Leopard (or any other OS where we do only partial builds 
because we use the system's python) you need to be sure that there is only 
one site-packages directory in your release tree and that it is the correct 
one.

For Leopard (and any other partial build OS such as Feisty and Gutsy), 
site-packages is expected to be under $CHANDLERBIN/release|debug.

The way RunPython detects whether you're running a full build or not is by 
finding a local build of Python. On Mac, this is determined by finding
$CHANDLERBIN/release|debug/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. If a local 
build of Python is found, that is what is run. If, that possibly 
unexpected, local build of Python is incomplete, that is, missing stuff in 
its site-packages, you get that kind of error.

In other words, on a partial build OS such as Leopard, Feisty or Gutsy, 
always make sure you don't have a stray installation of a local python build 
in the way that may be left over from an older build (pre-partial) or some 
other source code tree sharing mechanism.

Andi..