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.