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Subject: Re: Problem installing PyEpics
From: Matt Newville <[email protected]>
To: Pete Jemian <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:09:40 -0600
Hi Allan, Pete,


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Pete Jemian <[email protected]> wrote:
Alan:

You reported a Python 2.7 error when loading PyEpics from a non-interactive Linux session:

>   File
> "/home/akastengren/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/epics/ca.py",
> line 217, in initialize_libca
>     raise ChannelAccessException('loading Epics CA DLL failed: ' +
> str(exc))
> epics.ca.ChannelAccessException: loading Epics CA DLL failed:
> /home/akastengren/anaconda2/bin/../lib/libreadline.so.6: undefined
> symbol: PC

user@host ~$ nm /home/akastengren/anaconda2/lib/libreadline.so.6 | grep PC
                     U PC

The "U" means the symbol is undefined

I get the same thing (with my Anaconda installations).  This is an Anaconda Python issue with the readline support.  The closest web answer I can find is here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29944238/importerror-when-using-rpy2-with-numpy-testing

The selected "best" answer describes three steps as the suggested fix:

1. delete __pycache__ directory (does not apply, you have Python 2.7, not Python3
2. conda install -c asmeurer readline
3. Inside the .py file, add "import readline"

Step 2, do it from the command line.  Updates readline to 6.2.5
Step 3, insert this into epics/ca.py at (or near) line 26
(/home/akastengren/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/epics/ca.py)

Report back whether or not this helps.
 
Pete

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Thanks Pete.  I think several people have been bitten by these readline issues with Anaconda's version of readline vs libca's version of readline.  I think I've only solved this one at a time on individual linux machines.

I'd be curious if step 3 (explicit import of readline in ca.py) is necessary and if we should try to add that. It might also be useful to have the conda package for pyepics depend on the asmeurer/readline package.

A larger-scale question would be:  why do libca.so and libCom.so need to be linked against libreadline? I would have thought that readline would be something that iocsh needs, but not libca / libCom.
 
--Matt Newville


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