[lxml-dev] Segfault and bus error when importing lxml.html.clean after importing webbrowser

[Jon Rosebaugh]

No luck. Apparently I need a universal build of libxml2 and libxslt in
order for lxml to build, and I can't figure out how to compile those
manually. I tried telling lxml to statically link against the
universal builds provided by macports, but I got segfaulting again.

On Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  Jon Rosebaugh wrote:
>  > My production deployment will actually be on Debian Linux; this is
>  > just my development machine. That said, I tried looking at the static
>  > build directions, but they're for Windows. I did download all the
>  > source archives for the various libraries, but I believe I have to
>  > configure them in a certain way for the static build?
>
>  No, normally they build everything you need for both static and dynamic linking.
>
>  I have no idea how MacOS-X works here, but you should already have the
>  libraries installed on your system, maybe you just need the development
>  packages with header files and static build libs.
>
>  But if you have the source directories, something like this might work:
>
>     # cd /path/to/libxml2-src
>     # ./configure CFLAGS="whatever you use" --without-python
>     # make
>     # cd /path/to/libxslt-src
>     # ./configure CFLAGS="whatever you use" --without-python \
>           --with-libxml-src=/path/to/libxml2-src
>     # make
>
>  and then open lxml's setup.py and set the static include dirs to
>
>     /path/to/libxml2-src/include
>     /path/to/libxslt-src/libxslt
>     /path/to/libxslt-src/libexslt
>     + the normal system include dirs for zlib, iconv, etc.
>
>  and the static lib dirs to
>
>     /path/to/libxml2-src/.libs
>     /path/to/libxslt-src/libxslt/.libs
>     /path/to/libxslt-src/libexslt/.libs
>
>  You may have to add something like "-liconv" and "-lz" to the static cflags to
>  compile against the other libs, or maybe you need to link those statically
>  also. Just try it out. The compiler calls from the standard build of lxml will
>  give you hints what else you need.
>
>  Hope that helps,
>  Stefan
>
>