On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > > Helena Mitasova wrote: > >> this is the same problem here - the problem is with python2.4 that is used >> as default >> and that does not include ctypes so you need to make symlink in grass to >> make sure >> it looks for python2.6 (which I have also installed) or there may be some >> other solution - >> You cannot remove python2.4 because it is used for system management. >> I did not have time to get it fully resolved yet. > > ctypes can be added as a third-party module in Python 2.3 and 2.4 (it > doesn't work on versions prior to 2.3, and it's part of the standard > library in 2.5 onwards). > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ctypes/1.0.2 > > Note: it requires libffi.
Indeed, it was as easy as this: root> easy_install ctypes Now it compiles also with Python2.4. > However, installing Python >= 2.5 is likely to be easier, and will > also help if there are other compatibility issues (I don't know how > much testing gets done with 2.4 nowadays). Well, I hesitate to break the existing installation on our cluster. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
