Thanks for replying - do I detect a slight hint of sarcasm ? Before attempting the installation I looked for How_toe, read the documention provided and checked the Zope list archive. The documentation is not adequate. Here we go for MySQLDA "Installation: Unpack the tarball in your Zope home, make sure you have MySQLdb-0.9.0 installed where Zope can find it, and restart Zope. " where Zope can find it ??? OK so you follow the link to MySQLdb-0.9.0 - goes to sourceforge - so wher then - ah a docs link - what's this Using and Extend, Using the API - where's the 'installation bit ?' check out the General Introduction - find it 'should build' by using the setup.py script So at this point I check out the How-Tos - one - but its old - says you have to have the source distribution for Zope AND python. Now I already have an earlier ZMySQLDA running and I know I didn't install from the Source but it was last year and I've done sooo many other things since then I can't remember what I did do ... OK check out the archive - still trying to find where to unpack the MySQLdb tarball so that 'Zope can find it' No clues there, except Andy saying it doesn't have to be in the /lib/Products directory - so it CAN go there but perhaps it shouldn't ? Check out the FAQ - there's something there about compiling - so I'm trying to create a module _mysqlmodule.so - what's that for, where does it go when I have compiled it ? By now I've taken the plunge and unpacked the tarball - look at the README, says I need distutils if I'm running Python 1.5 but Zope 2.4 uses Python 2.1 so guess I'm OK there (miss out an important bit of news that I need the development version of Python 2.1) talks about running setup.py - look at the setup.py script - which says shouldn't need altering for RH so run it. TOtally unsurpised to get an error - can't find python.h - give up at this point and throw myself at mercy of the list and get kicked in the head (while being given a useful clue). Oh the joy of Zope. Still don't know why it has to be so complicated - why it can't ship with the Zope RPM - perhaps its a kind of test. Does anyone out there have it working - can they ship me a binary that will work with Zope 2.4.1, RH6.1 and tell me where to put it (steady boys). Kind regards Richard At 19:15 19/09/01, you wrote:
On Sep 19, Richard Moon <richard@dcs.co.uk> wrote:
I'm trying to use Zope to meet clients' business needs and losing money working out why I'm getting the following message when running setup.py (why I have to do it I don't know but after you unpack the MySQLDA-python distributiion and read the README you find you have to do it !) ((No I don't want to know why I have to do it )).
That's quite a plea for help.
I'm assuming I have to have the source Zope distribution to get the missing Python.h for Python 2.1 ?
No, you need to have the Python development package installed: python-devel or python2-devel (if you are using RPMs). It says this right at the top of the README you say you don't want to know why you have to read.
Aaagh. Great job you guys doing all this Open Source stuff but soooo frustrating that you can't use it without being a C and Python wizard
What, following the instructions is too hard for you?
It's not like its some obscure, little used feature I'm after here. I remember that survey on the Zope site that said connection to RDBMs was the number one interest of Zope users.
How many people have given up on Zope for this kind of reason - thousands and thousands I would guess. Most customers don't complain, they just go elsewhere !!!
And for that, I am grateful.
Anyway its looking for Python.h
running build_ext building '_mysql' extension gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/mysql -I/opt/Zope-2.4o _mysql.c:31: Python.h: No such file or directory _mysql.c:40: structmember.h: No such file or directory error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
The only Python.h I've got is in the Python 1.5.2. that comes with RH6.1. I was deliberately running the Python 2.1 that comes with Zope (as it tell you to), but presumably that's why I get the problem ?
See above. You don't have the required development package needed to compile. Once you have solved that problem, you can run setup.py bdist_rpm to make an RPM for your platform, whatever that might be.
Richard Moon richard@dcs.co.uk