Hello,
 
I modified my setup.py file and rebuild it.  I got a different error.  This is the sort section at the end of my compile.
 
vio_fd                              0x618       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
my_inet_ntoa                        0x30c       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
write                               0x90        /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
vio_is_blocking                     0x40c       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
vio_is_blocking                     0x868       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
vio_errno                           0x568       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
setsockopt                          0x148       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
setsockopt                          0x178       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
setsockopt                          0x1d8       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(viosocket.o)
net_real_write                      0x250       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
net_real_write                      0x31c       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
net_real_write                      0x3a4       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
net_real_write                      0x3bc       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
net_real_write                      0x6e4       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
net_real_write                      0x820       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
vio_should_retry                    0x4ac       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
vio_should_retry                    0x504       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
vio_should_retry                    0xa38       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
vio_should_retry                    0xa90       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
vio_should_retry                    0xaf4       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(net.o)
realloc                             0x14        /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(my_realloc.o)
<unknown>                           0xc0        /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(my_getwd.o)
<unknown>                           0xc8        /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(my_getwd.o)
fdopen                              0x1e0       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(my_fopen.o)
fclose                              0x120       /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(my_fopen.o)
memchr                              0xc         /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(strnlen.o)
ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
 
I changed the permition of /usr/local/mysql/lib and /usr/local/mysql/include to 775, but still get this error.
 
Thank you for your help,
Tri.