[pylucene-dev] issues compiling PyLucene on Linux

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:
>>
>>> Now I can generate the wrappers, and call initVM on GoodStuff, but not
>>> actually run it.  This is Python 2.5.1 running both "lucene" and
>>> "goodstuff", both wrapped with --shared, using Java 6 on CentOS Linux.
>>> Can this raise a (Python) exception which can be caught and handled
>>> rather than aborting the process?
>>
>> You say 'can this raise a (Python) exception....' but what is 'this' ?
>> In particular, what is happening at build/_goodstuff/__wrap__.cpp:6166 ?
>
> It's calling newObject(), pretty much what the stack trace says.

Yes, that much I saw too. But I need to know what is calling to be able to 
answer your question as to why it's crashing and not reporting a python 
error.

> It turned out to be another missing class issue, referenced by one of
> the types implementing GoodStuff, and not on my classpath.  If I fire
> up Python interactively, and try creating an instance of GoodStuff by
> hand, I get the Java exception and stack trace.  I'm not sure why it
> doesn't work inside a program...

If you tell me what's at that line of code (__wrap__.cpp:6166) I can give 
you an answer.

Andi..