[lxml-dev] Re: lxml build problem

[Allan Curtis]

On Monday 27 February 2006 22:14, Olivier Grisel wrote:
Olivier,

Thanks for your very quick response.
<snip>
> This is a konwn problem: your version of Pyrex does not support gcc4 as
> explained on the installation page of lxml:
>
>   http://codespeak.net/lxml/installation.html
>
> Pyrex 0.9.3.1 does not fix the problem entirely.
>
> You can download a patch above or you can directly 'svn co' a prepatched
> version of pyrex here for instance:
>
>   http://svn.nuxeo.org/pub/vendor/Pyrex/tags/0.9.3-gcc4-patched/

I thought that v0.9.3.1 of Pyrex was patched.  Anyway, I have progress but get 
further errors:

running build_ext
building 'lxml.etree' extension
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 29, in ?
    cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_pyx}
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/command/install.py", line 511, in run
    self.run_command('build')
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/command/build.py", line 112, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 279, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 405, in 
build                         _extensions
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 442, in 
build                         _extension
    sources = self.swig_sources(sources, ext)
TypeError: swig_sources() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

I am new to Python, but this error appears to be a Python rather than 
assembler issue.  Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Kind Regards
-- 
Allan Curtis