[libhid-discuss] Installing Python wrappers from SVN

[Sarah Mount]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:34, Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc> wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Sarah Mount wrote:
>
>> Importing libhid.hid looks like it ought to work but actually gives
>> the following error:
>>
>>>>> import libhid.hid
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "/usr//lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/__init__.py", line
>> 11, in <module>
>>    import _hid
>> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/_hid.so:
>> undefined symbol: assert
>
> That's a very odd error. "assert" should be a preprocessor #define. What if
> you cd to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid, then run python and try
> "import hid"?
>

Same thing:


>>> import hid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/hid.py", line 11, in <module>
    import _hid
ImportError: ./_hid.so: undefined symbol: assert
>>>



The ldd output you asked for is this:

$ sudo ldd /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/_hid.so
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb80d9000)
	/lib/snoopy.so (0xb80c5000)
	libhid.so.0 => /usr/lib/libhid.so.0 (0xb80a0000)
	libusb-0.1.so.4 => /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4 (0xb8097000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7f39000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f35000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb80da000)
$


Odd!

Many thanks,

Sarah

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