[Mapserver-users] Error on import mapscript in Python with Mapserver 4.2.1

[John Beisley - RSG]

Hi,

Looks to me as if mapscript is not correctly linking against libgd on 
your system for some reason. Did you compile from source?

Björn Platzen wrote:

>Hello List,
>
>I just installed mapserver 4.2.1 and Python-Mapscript.
>
>When I try
>
>import mapscript
>
>I get the following error:
>
>  
>
>>>>import mapscript
>>>>        
>>>>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  File "mapscript.py", line 5, in ?
>    import _mapscript
>ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_mapscript.so: undefined
>symbol: gdImageSetClip
>
>MapServer/Mapscript is installed with gd-2.0.27, Python 2.2 on a SuSE
>Linux 8.0 Machine.
>
>Before, I had Mapserver/Mapscript 3.6.5 installed and running. 
>
>I hope, anyone can tell me, whats going wrong.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Bjoern
>  
>

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