[LAU] Fedora 11 + pyjack + blender

[Patrick Shirkey]

Hi,


I'm trying to get the pyjack patch to work with blender. I'm using a 
Fedora 11 machine for this test. Unfortunately Fedora packagers have to 
compile the official blender package without ffmpeg support so it is 
fairly useless for my specific requirement of editing video with Blender.

I have the latest binary from the Blender site which is compiled for 
python 2.6.2. Fedora 11 comes with python 2.6

Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Jun  8 2009, 16:07:29)

I'm not sure if that is 2.6.2 or not.

However the blender binary cannot find python on  my system at all. I 
guess because it is installed in /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib/ and or 
the included python libs are overriding my system settings for some 
reason. If I set the python path to /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib64/python2.6 
then I get nothing. If I set it to /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ 
which is where the pyjack script is installed I get a crash.

If I run python by itself it tells me that it can find the correct paths.

================
#python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Jun  8 2009, 16:07:29)
[GCC 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import sys
 >>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib64/python26.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.6', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-tk', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Numeric', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PIL', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gst-0.10', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/scim-0.1', 
'/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages']
================


So ideas on why the blender binary is failing here and how to fix it 
would be welcome. Also if anyone can recommend a quick way to test 
pyjack to make sure it is installed properly that would also be handy.



Cheers.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd