Pystemmer 1.0.1 installation problem in Linux

[Jason Scheirer]

On Mar 27, 8:40 am, mungkol <supheakmungkol.sa... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a newbie to Python community. For my project, I tried to install
> Pystemmer 1.0.1 (http://snowball.tartarus.org/wrappers/
> PyStemmer-1.0.1.tar.gz) on my linux ubuntu 7.10 machine but
> unsuccessful. It produced the following error:
>
> running install
> running build
> running build_ext
> building 'Stemmer' extension
> gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-
> prototypes -fPIC -Isrc -Ilibstemmer_c/include -I/usr/include/python2.5
> -c libstemmer_c/src_c/stem_ISO_8859_1_danish.c -o build/temp.linux-
> i686-2.5/libstemmer_c/src_c/stem_ISO_8859_1_danish.o
> In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.3/include/
> syslimits.h:7,
>                  from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.3/include/
> limits.h:11,
>                  from libstemmer_c/src_c/../runtime/header.h:2,
>                  from libstemmer_c/src_c/stem_ISO_8859_1_danish.c:4:
> /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.3/include/limits.h:122:61: error:
> limits.h: No such file or directory
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>
> Did anyone experience this before?
>
> Any comment/suggestion is highly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Supheakmungkol

This is a system configuration issue, not a Python issue: you seem to
be missing a header file. First, make sure it exists ( /usr/lib/gcc/
i486-linux-gnu/4.1.3/include/limits.h ) and that you have permission
to read it. If it's there, just sudo chmod a+r it and see if that
helps. Also try installing Ubuntu's standard essential build tools
( sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential ) and
see if that helps