2.2.1 build fails on linux

[Harvey Thomas]

This may be of interest as Michael Hudson certainly knows what he's talking about

Harvey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Hudson [mailto:mwh at python.net]
> Sent: 22 May 2002 10:56
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: 2.2.1 build fails on linux
> 
> 
> "Whitney Williams" <whitney at pk3i.com> writes:
> 
> > I cannot build a working 2.2.1 installation, and wondered 
> if anyone else had
> > encountered this problem (and found  a workaround)...
> > 
> > whitney at freaky:~/src/Python-2.2.1$ gcc -v
> > Reading specs from 
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.4/specs
> > Configured with:
> > ../gcc-3.0.4/configure --with--gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --enable-threads
> > Thread model: posix
> > gcc version 3.0.4
> > 
> > creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.2
> > gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I. 
> -I/home/whitney/src/
> > Python-2.2.1/./Include -I/usr/local/include -IInclude/ -c
> > /home/whitney/src/Python-2.2.1/Modules/structmodule.c -o
> > build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/structmodule.o
> > creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.2
> > gcc -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/structmodule.o 
> -L/usr/local/lib -o
> > build/lib.linux-i686-2.2/struct.so
> > WARNING: removing "struct" since importing it failed
> 
> What you probably need to do is execute the commands by hand that
> build the struct module and try importing it to find the error (this
> is easier in cvs python as instead of removing the broken module it
> renames it to, in this case, struct_failed.so).
> 
> You'll probably find that your gcc installation is broken, at a
> guess... maybe you're compiling with a gcc 3.0 setup, but the dynamic
> linker expects 2.95 or something.
> 
> > I see this has been happening with somwe Solaris installations.
> 
> That's usually a bust openssl installation.
> 
> > I have always been to successfully build python in the past.
> 
> With gcc 3.0.4?
> 
> Cheers,
> M.
> 
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