[omniORB] Python2.0

[Michel Sanner]

Hello,

we have an application that runs under python2.0 and we would like to use 
omniorb.

My first question is what version of omniorb should be used with python2.0 ?

I tried building version 3.0.4 (just to see if it would work) but I ran into 
several problems:

1 - The building script assumes that sys.prefix is the same as sys.exec_prefix.
When sys.prefix is different from sys.exec_prefix config.h is found in 
sys.exec_prefix/include/python$(VERSION)/ while all the other Python include 
files are in sys.prefix/include/python$(VERSION)/. The consequence is that one 
has to use -Isys.exec_prefix/include/python$(VERSION)/ AND  
-Isys.prefix/include/python$(VERSION)/ on the compilation line of 
tool/omniidl/cxx/idlpython.cc

I ended up compiling this file by hand

CC -c -O2 -g -Kpic -DIDLMODULE_VERSION="0x2301" 
-I/tsri/python/sun4SunOS5/include/python2.0/ 
-I/tsri/python/share/include/python2.0/ -DPYTHON_INCLUDE=" <Python.h> " -I. 
-I../../../../include -D__sparc__ -D__sunos__ -D__OSVERSION__=5 -o idlpython.o 
idlpython.cc


2 - the script in ./bin/<platform>/omniidlrun.py starts with
#!/usr/bin/env python

which assumes that "python" resolves to the proper version of Python. Since you 
are asking where the Python interpreter is anyways in the <platfomr>.mk file, 
why not use the path to the interpreter that was specified there ?

3 - during gmake export intr ./scr
the make command in src/lib/omniORB2 fails because the python interpreter 
invoked by omniidlrun.py does not find _omniidlmodule.so. I added the ./lib 
directory to sys.path in omniidlrun.py. I did not want to add it to PYTHONPATH 
becaue this variable is seen by all my python interpreters (1.5.2, 2.0, .2.1, 
2.2 etc..)

4 - I understand that omniORB uses Python internally. Does this version of 
Python have to math the one with which omniORBpy is used ?
 
Thanks for any help/comments/suggestions with this

-Michel
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Michel F. Sanner Ph.D.                   The Scripps Research Institute
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