Broken python bindings about atomspace HOT 10 CLOSED

I don't understand the bug report. HAVE_CYTHON is set, if cython3 is detected. when you say cmake, it prints a log reporting what it finds. For me, it found:

-- Python 3.11.2 interpreter found.
-- Python 3.11.2 libraries found.
-- Cython ( 0.29.3 >= 0.24.0) found.
-- Python destination dir found: /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages
-- Python install dir: /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/opencog
-- Using nosetests executable /usr/bin/nosetests3

The following components will be built:
-----------------------------------------------
   Python bindings       - Python (cython) bindings.
   Python tests          - Python bindings nose tests.

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Hmm, opencog/cython/opencog/CMakeLists.txt, lines 14-16, looks fine. It should be a semi-colon-sparated list of directories. the -D doesn't make sense. See

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH.html
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/INSTALL_RPATH.html

At any rate, it looks like its sort of working, anyway. The runpath is set. You can check with objdump -x libPythonSCM.so |grep RUNPATH

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The third block of errors appear to happen because -DHAVE_CYTHON was never set in the compiler, and thus, there is no definition for PythonEval. By force-setting it in CMake, you've tricked it into a confusing situation. I will add an error message.

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I take back the earlier comment. opencog/cython/opencog/CMakeLists.txt, lines 14-16, looks fine. To debug, make this change:

--- a/opencog/cython/opencog/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/opencog/cython/opencog/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH
    "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/opencog"
    "${PYTHON_DEST}")
 
+MESSAGE(STATUS "This is the RUNPATH for cython: ${CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH}")
+
 INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(
        ${PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS}
        ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}

When I do this, running cmake prints, for me,

-- Setting python RPATH to /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/opencog
-- This is the RUNPATH for cython: /usr/local/lib/opencog;/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/opencog

I'm guessing its borken for you because either python3 or cython3 aren't installed. Note that python version 2 is not supported in opencog.

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Python3 and Cython3 are installed. I noticed they were not found. So I tried to force it with -DHAVE_CYTHON.

Will try to come back to this as soon as the need for python bindings is being felt again.

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The search is done by /usr/local/share/opencog/cmake/OpenCogFindPython.cmake which uses /usr/local/share/opencog/cmake/FindPython3Interp.cmake to do lower-level work.

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To debug, just edit the files by hand, and use

MESSAGE(STATUS "what happened of foo is ${FOO_BAR}")

to print out the variable FOO_BAR. This only prints when cmake is run. The original versions of these files are installed by cogutil, from here: https://github.com/opencog/cogutil/tree/master/cmake

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My best guess is that you have both python3 and python2 installed. Opencog searches for both, and might have gotten confused during the search. To avoid this confusion, I've removed the search for python2 here: opencog/cogutil#273

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Thank you. I'll attempt that as soon as I can.

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Closing, I'm guessing this is resolved.

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