[LAU] Solved. [was Re: Fedora 11 + pyjack + blender]

[Patrick Shirkey]

Compiling blender from source solved the python issue. Now I have ardour 
controlling blender and xjadeo at the same time.

Very cool!!!

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd


On 10/05/2009 12:07 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 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.
>
>