[XML-SIG] PyXML Installation on IBM AIX

Hestness, Steve Steve.Hestness@westgroup.com
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:06:42 -0600


I am attempting to install PyXML on IBM AIX 4.2.  I've installed distutils.
Here is the last part of the output from the "python setup.py build"
command:  What is ./ld_so_aix?

..
..
..
running build_ext
skipping extensions/sgmlop.c (sgmlop.o up-to-date)
./ld_so_aix cc sgmlop.o -o build/platlib/sgmlop.so
unable to execute ./ld_so_aix: No such file or directory
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 39, in ?
    ext_modules = [('sgmlop', { 'sources' : ['extensions/sgmlop.c'] }),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 97,
in setup
    dist.run_commands ()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 526,
in run_commands
    self.run_command (cmd)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 575,
in run_command
    cmd_obj.run ()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/build.py",
line 54, in run
    self.run_peer ('build_ext')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 886,
in run_peer
    self.distribution.run_command (command)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 575,
in run_command
    cmd_obj.run ()
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/build_ext.py",
line 150, in run
    self.build_extensions (self.extensions)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/build_ext.py",
line 247, in build_extensions
    extra_postargs=extra_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/unixccompiler.py",
line 293, in link_shared_object
    self.spawn ([self.ld_shared] + ld_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/ccompiler.py", line
431, in spawn
    spawn (cmd, verbose=self.verbose, dry_run=self.dry_run)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/spawn.py", line 35,
in spawn
    _spawn_posix (cmd, search_path, verbose, dry_run)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/spawn.py", line
121, in _spawn_posix
    raise DistutilsExecError, \
distutils.errors.DistutilsExecError: command './ld_so_aix' failed with exit
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