The same configuration that generates working executable under
Windows
  fails under Linux with the following error. Really it works on the
machine
  that generated it but fails when run on a different machine.

  I generated it under ubuntu 8.04, it fails with the same error under
  ubuntu 8.10 and ubuntu 9.04. It complains libffi.so.4: no such file
or
  directory, but that file is present in the dir created by
pyinstaller.

  Analizing wih strace -e trace=open (http://dpaste.com/57495/) you
can see
  that it searches in the real filesystems and does not search in the
dir
  generated by pyinstaller (/home/sandro/src/skdir/sqledit)

  Any hints?

  sandro
  *:-)

sandro@ubu904:~/src/skdir/sqledit$ ls -l libff*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro sandro 22308 2008-04-01 20:17 libffi.so.4

sandro@ubu904:~/src/skdir/sqledit$ ./sqledit
locale /home/sandro/src/skdir/sqledit/skdir/build/pyi.linux2/sqledit/
outPYZ1.pyz/locale
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 29, in <module>
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 439, in
importHook
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 524, in
doimport
  File "skdir/build/pyi.linux2/sqledit/outPYZ1.pyz/sqlkit", line 21,
in <module>
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 439, in
importHook
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 524, in
doimport
  File "skdir/build/pyi.linux2/sqledit/outPYZ1.pyz/sqlkit.db.proxy",
line 19, in <module>
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 480, in
importHook
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 524, in
doimport
  File "skdir/build/pyi.linux2/sqledit/outPYZ1.pyz/
sqlkit.db.minspect", line 4, in <module>
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 480, in
importHook
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 524, in
doimport
  File "skdir/build/pyi.linux2/sqledit/outPYZ1.pyz/sqlkit.debug", line
1, in <module>
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 439, in
importHook
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 524, in
doimport
  File "skdir/build/pyi.linux2/sqledit/outPYZ1.pyz/
sqlkit.debug.debug", line 80, in <module>
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 439, in
importHook
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 508, in
doimport
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 300, in getmod
  File "/home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/iu.py", line 109, in getmod
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: ImportError
('libffi.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory',))

So, I'm unsure why it's being ignored when you change the Linux version.
Can you maybe help debugging this? It's probably related to ld.so
configuration or something like that.
--
Giovanni Bajo
Develer S.r.l.
http://www.develer.com

sandro
*:-)

sandro@bluff:/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg$ cat babex/ex2.py
import os
print "\nLD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD:", os.environ.get('LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD', None)

sandro@bluff:/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg$ Makespec.py babex/ex2.py
wrote /home/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg/ex2/ex2.spec
now run Build.py to build the executable
sandro@bluff:/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg$ Build.py ex2/ex2.spec
checking Analysis
building because babex/ex2.py changed
running Analysis outAnalysis0.toc
Analyzing: ./support/_mountzlib.py
Analyzing: ./support/useUnicode.py
Analyzing: babex/ex2.py
ex2/build/pyi.linux2/ex2/outAnalysis0.toc no change!
checking PYZ
checking PKG
building because babex/ex2.py changed
building PKG outPKG3.pkg
checking EXE
rebuilding outEXE2.toc because pkg is more recent
building EXE from outEXE2.toc
Appending archive to EXE ex2/build/pyi.linux2/ex2/ex2
checking COLLECT
building outCOLLECT4.toc because ex2/build/pyi.linux2/ex2/ex2 is more recent
building COLLECT outCOLLECT4.toc
sandro@bluff:/misc/src/svn/pyinstaller-hg$ ex2/dist/ex2/ex2

LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD: None

Do other people have different behaviour on Linux?

sandro
*:-)

sandro