[omniORB] Minor patch to windows build

Harri Pasanen harri.pasanen@trema.com
Fri Apr 11 15:21:01 2003


On Friday 11 April 2003 16:00, Duncan Grisby wrote:
> On Wednesday 9 April, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>
[...]
> > Somehow the re.py wrapper doesn't get sre imported to its
> > namespace. I wonder if omniidl messing with the import mechanism?
>
> omniidl doesn't mess with the import mechanism. On Windows omniidl
> is an executable linked against the Python library, so that might
> explain the problem. Try setting the PYTHONVERBOSE environment
> variable before running omniidl. That might produce something
> useful.

I've tracked it down further, it seems to be some sort of python 
problem when Python is embedded on Win2K.    So I can reproduce it 
outside of omniorb with a minimal embedded python, but oddly enough 
only on Win2K, not on Linux.

I've taken the issue to the python-dev mailing list.

-Harri