[vtkusers] dl module

[Leila Baghdadi]

Hi David,

Thank you, Yes it does work.

Leila

On Wed, 2006-25-01 at 14:40 -0500, David Gobbi wrote:
> The solution is this:  In __init__.py, look for this:
> 
> try:
>     import dl
> except ImportError:
>     dl = None
> 
> And change it to this:
> 
> try:
>     import dl
> except ImportError:
>     dl = None
> except SystemError:
>     dl = None
> 
> I know this fix works on linux-ia64, so if you can confirm that it also 
> works on your linux-x86_64 system then I'll commit it to cvs along with 
> some comments about why its there.
> 
>  - David
> 
> 
> 
> Leila Baghdadi wrote:
> 
> >Hi everyone.
> >
> >I am using python2.2 on 64 bit machine. I have discovered that 
> >Wrapping/Python/vtk/__init__.py tries to import the dl module which
> >unfortunately have some issues on 64 bit
> >
> >  
> >
> >>>>import dl
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >SystemError: module dl requires sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) ==
> >sizeof(char*)
> >
> >
> >Just wondering if anyone has come up with a solution.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
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