Error Building PyPgSQL

[Gerhard Häring]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:13:36 -0400, Rod MacNeil wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to build PyPgSQL on a RH7 box with
>Python 1.5 and postgres 7.0 and gcc-2.96-54.
>I left the Setup.in file as it shipped because it looked
>correct to me.
>I get the following when I run make.
>
>gcc -fPIC -I/usr/local/pgsql/include -g -02 -
>I/usr/include/python1.5 -I/usr/include/python1.5 -
>DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c ./libpqmodule.c
>./libpqmodule.c: In function `PgConnection_New':
>./libpqmodule.c:196: parse error before `PgConnection'
>./libpqmodule.c: In function `PgResult_New':
>./libpqmodule.c:282: parse error before `PgResult'
>./libpqmodule.c: In function `PgLargeObject_New':
>./libpqmodule.c:358: parse error before `PgLargeObject'
>./libpqmodule.c: In function `PgNotify_New':
>./libpqmodule.c:548: parse error before `PgNotify'
>make: *** [libpqmodule.o] Error 1
>
>This looks like a compiler error to me but I'm not a C programmer.
>The four lines of code appear to be
>using the same syntax, is this a syntax error or
>possibly a compiler version issue?
>
>Has anyone else had this problem or know of a solution?

The latest release uses distutils and it works fine. I think you should use
this one (edit paths in setup.py, then "python setup.py build" then "python
setup.py install").

Gerhard
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