[XML-SIG] xml install problems

[Betty Harvey]

John:

I had similar problems but much earlier.  I tried installing
Python on Linux 5.0.  The Makefile.pre.in worked just fine,
however, when I tried the 'make' I got the following
error:

gcc -fPIC -O -I/usr/include/python1.4 -I/usr/include/python1.4
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-Iexpat/xmlparse -c ./pyexpat.c
./pyexpat.c: In function `mywrite':
./pyexpat.c:64: void value not ignored as it ought to be
make: *** [pyexpat.o] Error 1                                    

Betty


On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, John Day wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a Python and Xml newbie, having problems installing the latest
> xml-0.5 under Linux.
> 
> I did not have Python installed, so I got the latest Python
> 1.5.1 from www.python.org and installed it with prefix=/home/jday
> It seemed to install OK and make test ran OK.
> 
> 
> Then I unzipped the xml-0.5 into /home/jday/xml/xml-0.5/ and
> did:
>   make -f Makefile.pre.in Makefile VERSION=1.5 installdir=/home/jday
>   make
>   make install
> 
> The make seemed to make and install everything OK, _but_ 6 out of 7 tests
> failed:
> 
> 
> jday@medusa:/home/jday/xml/xml-0.5> make test
> cd test ; PYTHONPATH=.. python testxml.py
> test_arch
> test test_arch skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported
> test_dom
> test test_dom skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported
> test_pyexpat
> test_sax
> test test_sax skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported
> test_unicode
> test test_unicode skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported
> test_utils
> test test_utils skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported
> test_xmllib
> test test_xmllib skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported
> 1 test OK.
> 6 tests skipped: test_arch test_dom test_sax test_unicode test_utils
> test_xmllib
> 
> jday@medusa:/home/jday/xml/xml-0.5/test> python test_arch.py
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "test_arch.py", line 6, in ?
>     from xml.sax import saxexts, saxlib, saxutils
> ImportError: No module named xml.sax
> 
> PYTHONPATH was not defined so I tried
>  setenv PYTHONPATH /home/jday/lib/python1.5/
> with no improvement.
> 
> I know very little about python and your XML implementations. What
> am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Day
> Palm Bay, Florida 
> 
> 
> 
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