On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:39:39 +0200, Jarek Zgoda wrote: > fartknuckle : > >> When I try to build and install python from source It configures and >> makes fine but upon 'make install' I always get to this >> point: >> >> >> >> Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/__init__.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/_exceptions.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/expatreader.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/handler.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/saxutils.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/xmlreader.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xmllib.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py ... >> Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py ... >> make: *** [libinstall] Error 1 >> >> >> >> I am currently trying to install 2.5.1. I get the error no matter what the >> version is. Does anyone have an idea what may be causing this? >> >> I have gone through the config.log and found no errors concerning >> zipfile.py or zipfile or zip. I am thinking the error is the next command >> after the zipfile.py installation because I can go into >> /usr/local/lib/python2.5 and zipfile.py is installed. >> >> Any help much appreciated. > > I saw this (and reported this issue in SF's tracker) at some time around > 2.2/2.3 (just cann't recall). I don't know what causes this problem > exactly, but in my case the installation succeeded if I removed prevoius > python's library directory (/usr/lib/python2.x or > /usr/local/lib/python2.x). The module that stopped installation was > exactly the same.
That did the trick, thanks a million. :) -- Take summa dis punk! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
