[lxml-dev] PyUnicodeUCS2_Decode errors

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Ian,

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Lately we've been having problems with errors like "undefined symbol:
> PyUnicodeUCS2_Decode" when we do "import lxml.etree".  When we build
> lxml from source the errors go away.
>
> I'm guessing this is because of systems that use UCS4 instead of UCS2,
> and lxml eggs that were compiled differently then the system.  Is this
> the case?

I guess so, yes.


> Is this a sign something is missing from the platform
> signature of egg files?

Definitely. The right place to ask this is the distutils SIG mailing list.

Stefan