[XML-SIG] Problem Installing PyXML

Matt Gushee Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:24:19 -0600


On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:23:34PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Matt Gushee writes:
>  > This may be incorrect. You do need to have the Python Makefile installed
>  > to compile C extensions with DistUtils; I don't know about Solaris, but
>  > on Linux at least you have to build Python from source or install a
>  > development package to have the Makefile. I think most PyXML users up to
> 
> The fact that some distributers package the development support
> separately from the main Python interpreter is quite disconcerting.  I

"Some distributors" means most Linux distributions, I believe--certainly
RedHat and Debian, and probably all other RPM-based distros as well. You
might have to get used to it ;-)

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Matt Gushee
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