[Zope] Error starting zope - undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsEncodedString

[John Schinnerer]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 20. Juni 2007 21:58:18 -1000 John Schinnerer <john at eco-living.net> 
> wrote:
>> Thanks...I have no idea how to do that unfortunately.
>> This is the first time I've built python from source. I just followed the
>> build instructions in the tarball and "it worked." At least, I have a
>> working python 2.3 in the location I specified for "--with-python" when
>> building zope.
>>  From various list messages about this same error message I get that
>> there is some mismatch involving UCS2 vs. UCS4 compiled pieces - if I
>> grok correctly...?
> 
> Right.
> 
> If you install Python using
> 
>  configure --prefix=/opt/python-2.4; make;make install
> 
> and configure Zope using
> 
>  configure --with-python=/opt/python-2.4/bin/python2.4; make; make install
> 
> you should never get into such trouble. Somehow your environment or setup
> must be broken. Possibly you're installing Zope over an existing Zope 
> installation with possibly old zopectl/runzope files inside the 'bin' 
> folder
> which won't be replaced by "make install". So check the "python" 
> configuration within your bin/zopectl|runzope files.

Thanks again - the above is what I thought I did (matching the --prefix 
and the --with-python) - however somewhere I blew it somehow as the 
control files point to the wrong python.
I'll try again and hopefully get it right. Thanks for the extra assist.

cheers,
John S.

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