Le Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:01:24 -0800 (PST), Bernard Rankin <beranki...@yahoo.com> a écrit :
> Hello, > > I am trying to build python 2.6 on a machine (web server) that I do not have > root access to. (has 2.4 installed) > > Python 2.5 builds fine, but I am getting an error when I run "make" for 2.6.1 > > Here is the command line I am using: > ../configure -prefix=/home/username/local-python/ --enable-unicode=ucs4 > > (I don't know what the ucs4 thing is, but all the HOWTOs I saw say to use it. > ) UCS (universal character set) is the name of the ISO norm that is +/- equivalent to unicode. ucs-4 is an encoding equivalent to utf-16, if I remenber well. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Here is what the local python reports itself as: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jul 29 2007, 14:09:31) > [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)] on linux2 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Here is the error after I run "make": > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > [SNIP] > /home/username/local-src/Python-2.6.1/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:3941: error: > syntax error before '*' token > /home/username/local-src/Python-2.6.1/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:3942: > warning: function declaration isn't a prototype > /home/username/local-src/Python-2.6.1/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c: In function > `CFuncPtr_nonzero': > /home/username/local-src/Python-2.6.1/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:3943: error: > `self' undeclared (first use in this function) > > Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: > _tkinter bsddb185 sunaudiodev > To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the > module's name. > > > Failed to build these modules: > _ctypes > > running build_script > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saw the same kind of error report for buiding ctypes, precisely, on another list. It seemed that this module's buiding is platform dependant. Well informed people said that it's not needed anyway (it allows using native C value types in python code). Don't know more myself. Denis ______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > ------ la vida e estranya _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
