[Zope] help - my zope build exits with compile errors :-(

[David H]

Thomas Wolf wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to build Zope-2.7.4-0 from source (I can't use a different 
> version because of the releas of Plone we're
> using.)  I ran
>     ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/zope/python/bin/python 
> --prefix=/usr/local/zope"
> and that reported no issues.  BTW, I'm using python 2.3.5 - that's why 
> I had to use the --use-python argument.
>
> Then I ran make.  No reported problems for quite a bit into the build 
> - then I get:
>
> gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -fPIC -I/usr/local/zope/python/include/python2.3 -c 
> Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/src/ISO_8859_1_Splitter.c 
> -o 
> /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.7.4-0/build-base/python-2.3/build-temp/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/src/ISO_8859_1_Splitter.o 
>
> gcc: 
> Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/src/ISO_8859_1_Splitter.c: 
> No such file or directory
> gcc: no input files
>
> Sure enough, there's no ISO_8859_1_Splitter.c file - but I haven't got 
> a clue why not.  IS this generated by an earlier
> part of the build and just didn't?  Or was there something missing 
> from the tar ball (I got it off www.zope.org!)
>
> Any help/suggestion would be much appreciated,
> Tom
>
> P.S. I'm trying to build this under Solaris 9 using gcc 3.3.2.
>
Thomas,

I seem to recall something like this.  I think the path + file name for 
sISO_8859_1_Splitter.o is *too long* for the extractor.

David