Help with building python mapscript

[Allan Hollander]

Hi,

I'm trying to build python mapscript for mapserver 4.4.1 and it seems to
be unable to find the OGR library. This is on Debian Sarge. Here's the
error message when I run the test in mapscript/python/tests/cases:

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% python runalltests.py -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "runalltests.py", line 59, in ?
    m = __import__(test)
  File
"/usr/local/src/mapserver-4.4.1/mapscript/python/tests/cases/classtest.py",
line 39, in ?
    from testing import mapscript
  File
"/usr/local/src/mapserver-4.4.1/mapscript/python/tests/cases/testing.py",
line 59, in ?
    import mapscript
  File "../../build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/mapscript.py", line 4, in ?
    import _mapscript
ImportError: ../../build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/_mapscript.so:
undefinedsymbol: getExteriorRing__10OGRPolygon

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I have built gdal-1.2.5 with ogr and have installed it to /usr/local. I
also have /usr/local/lib as an entry in my ld.so.conf file and rehashed
the library database with ldconfig. So I don't understand why
_mapscript.so is failing to find the OGR symbol above.

If anyone can share thoughts about why I'm getting this problem is it
would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Allan Hollander