I'm on Solaris 8, netscape server, Python 2.3a1.  I finally got PIL 
1.1.4 installed this morning.  I can run everything just fine from the 
command line.  When I try a regular import Image in the CGI script, it 
imports ok (I assume), but I get the "ImportError: The _imaging C module 
is not installed" error.  I checked the effbot site again (too much 
useful information there -- where does he find the time?), 
http://effbot.org/zone/pil-imaging-not-installed.htm.  I do have an 
_imaging module, located in /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL. 
  Doing an "import _imaging" from CLI, gives me:

dlopen("/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so", 2);
import _imaging # dynamically loaded from 
/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so

When I do an "import _imaging" in my CGI script, I get the following:

ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal: libjpeg.so.62: open 
failed: No such file or directory

I printed out my sys.path, and os.environ.  My sys.path is correct, it 
points to the PIL directory (among others).  os.environ doesn't show a 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I set one (/usr/local/lib) before I import the 
_imaging module (also, I tried before Image).  I checked for a 
libjpeg.so.62 file to make sure I had one -- I do.  Its located in 
/usr/local/lib/.  Its a symlink to /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0 
however.  So, I tried re-compiling PIL with 
--with-jpeg=/usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0, but couldn't get PIL to 
compile using this method (I'm not sure that it even *should* work).

I also checked the server, and it has a LD_LIBRARY_PATH of 
/usr/local/lib set upon start as well.

Running 'ldd _imaging.so' shows me the link 'libjpeg.so.62 =>  
/usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62' (among others).

I found a newsgroup post on google suggesting 1. to recompile PIL to 
statically link to libjpeg , 2. recompile with -R so PIL remembers where 
the dynamic libs are, or 3. modify the server start script to set the 
enviroment variable.  I don't think its a coincidence that the original 
poster was on a solaris machine either.

3 doesn't work (its already set), and I'm not sure exactly where/how to 
do 1 or 2 (though I'm snooping through all the make files and configure 
scripts).

Unfortunately, there was no real closure on the matter, so I'm not sure 
what the original poster did.

Any suggestions?

THanks for your time.

Jay


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