[PyGreSQL] Help with build on amd-64 linux

[Daryl Tester]

Ken Southerland wrote:

> I have an AMD 64-bit platform running SuSE Linux 10 and am having the 
> following problem using pygresql on it....
> 
> ken at saturn> python -c "import _pg.so"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: libpq.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory

Shouldn't you just be running "import _pg" (not _pg.so)?

> So far I have tried adding the location of libpq.so.4 to my PYTHONPATH and 
> that didn't work.

Shouldn't this be LD_LIBRARY_PATH or its 64 bit equivalent?  (I'm not
that familiar with the 64 bit environment).

> This is an error I usually see when the libraries are 
> incompatible rather than the file not actually existing, so I'm guessing its 
> something like that.

Try running "ldd /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/_pg.so" (or whatever
the path is) and manually verifying the paths returned are correct.
Also try "python -v -c 'import _pg'" to determine which _pg it's
trying to load.


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Regards,
  Daryl Tester, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.