'import perforce' doesn't work after installing PyPerforce

[vikas.bn@…]

Hi,

I installed PyPerforce so that I could use Trac with the p4 backend. However after following the instructions to build and install the plugin, when i open a python shell and do import perforce, i get the following error:

   $ python
Python 2.4.2 (#2, Feb 24 2006, 18:16:05)
[GCC 3.3.6] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import perforce
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/perforce/__init__.py", line 48, in ?
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/perforce/api.py", line 7, in ?
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/perforce/api.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: /remote/vtghome6/vikasbn/.python-eggs/PyPerforce-0.3a1-py2.4-linux-i686.egg-tmp/perforce/api.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10ClientUser16SetOutputCharsetEi

Have I missed anythig during the build process?

Also note that the PyPerforce, Trac and related plug-ins are installed on non-standard installation path (in my home-dir) as I don't have root access on those machines.

-vikas

[Lewis Baker]

This seems to be a PyPerforce build problem. It usually occurs when building PyPerforce using P4api libraries that don't match the runtime/compiler versions of used by Python.

Have a look ​here for the either the 'pic' libraries, if the gcc command line uses -Fpic, or the non-'pic' libraries and try rebuilding.

If that doesn't work then it could be an incompatability with your compiler's include headers. Try playing with the const_char macros at the start of the api.cpp source file in the PyPerforce source distribution to match the P4api and c-runtime libraries.

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Fixing formatting.

[anonymous]

Replying to lewisbaker:

This seems to be a PyPerforce build problem. It usually occurs when building PyPerforce using P4api libraries that don't match the runtime/compiler versions of used by Python.

Have a look ​here for the either the 'pic' libraries, if the gcc command line uses -Fpic, or the non-'pic' libraries and try rebuilding.

If that doesn't work then it could be an incompatability with your compiler's include headers. Try playing with the const_char macros at the start of the api.cpp source file in the PyPerforce source distribution to match the P4api and c-runtime libraries.

Thanks for the tip. Tried a couple of versions of the p4api after enabling the const_char macro. This worked.