As I said, it's some bug in macholib that causes it to produce an executable that isn't formed correctly. The fix for the problem is to find and fix whatever bug this happens to be in macholib. Personally I won't have time to look at this problem for a while.
-bob On 2/5/07, Chris Van Bael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting essentially the same error for some time now. > Could anybody please explain what is going wrong here exactly, because > me and some other people are having the same error and re-installing > py2app doesn't fix the problem. > > See: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2007-January/018645.html > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2006-October/018390.html > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2006-October/018391.html > > It would be a shame that I cannot provide a universal OS X version of > our program because of this problem.. > > Chris > > On 2/5/07, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When you see an error like that, it means there's a bug in macholib > > that caused it to produce a bogus file. Turning strip off doesn't > > really fix anything... > > > > -bob > > > > On 2/5/07, altern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi again > > > > > > I solved the problem by doing > > > $ python setup.py py2app --no-strip > > > > > > I read this about strip > > > --strip (-S) strip debug and local symbols from output (on by > > > default, for compatibility) > > > > > > could anyone explain a bit more about what this is? or maybe point to > > > somewhere i can read about it. I am interested because last time i used > > > this machine i did not need to use this (only use it every now and then > > > for testing on OSX), so I am trying to find out what is the difference > > > from last time. > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > enrike > > > > > > > > > altern wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I am getting this error when trying to use py2app. > > > > > > > > $ py2applet --make-setup glut_opengl.py > > > > $ python setup.py py2app > > > > ... > > > > ... > > > > stripping bz2.so > > > > stripping zlib.so > > > > stripping _codecs_tw.so > > > > stripping umath.so > > > > stripping binascii.so > > > > /usr/bin/strip: for architecture i386 object: > > > > /Users/xxx/ixi/python/dist/glut_opengl.app/Contents/MacOS/python > > > > malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD > > > > command 13 can't byte swap it) > > > > /usr/bin/strip: for architecture i386 object: > > > > /Users/xxx/ixi/python/dist/glut_opengl.app/Contents/MacOS/glut_opengl > > > > malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD > > > > command 10 can't byte swap it) > > > > stripping saved 8991796 bytes (7898608 / 16890404) > > > > > > > > > > > > I also tried with > > > > $ python setup.py py2app --prefer-ppc > > > > but i got the same error. Because of the '/usr/bin/strip: for > > > > architecture i386 object' I thought it might be a problem with my > > > > processor, note that I am working on an old G3 ppc ibook, I am running > > > > OS 10.4.8 and python 2.4.4, Py2app version is 0.3.5 . > > > > > > > > Later I tried with another script, one that does not use pyOpengl, same > > > > error again. > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > enrike > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > > > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
