MySQL-python build griefs

[Harry George]

I installed no problem (MySql 3.23.32, Redhat 6.2) with:

export PKGVER=MySQL-python-0.3.1
ln -s ../${PKGVER}.tar.gz .
gzip -cd  ${PKGVER}.tar.gz | tar xvf -
#---1.5.2---
cd  ${PKGVER}
#===edit Setup===
if sys.platform == "linux-i386": # Red Hat
    include_dirs = ['/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql']
#===end edits===
python setup.py build
su -c "python setup.py install"                                                      
wware at world.std.com (Will Ware) writes:

> I'm trying to build MySQL-python on a Red Hat 6.2 box. In order
> not to confuse the Red Hat installation, which depends heavily
> on Python, I've left Python at 1.5.2. I have Distutils 1.0.1
> installed. The version of MySQL-python is 0.3.0. To get things
> to work at all, I needed to build my own copy of Python-1.5.2/*
> to populate the /usr/include/python1.5 tree, running "configure"
> to produce a suitable "config.h". Now I'm getting an error on
> "python setup.py build" that looks like this:
> 
> running build
> running build_py
> not copying MySQLdb.py (output up-to-date)
> not copying CompatMysqldb.py (output up-to-date)
> running build_ext
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "setup.py", line 90, in ?
>     extra_objects=extra_objects,
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 138, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/dist.py", line 829, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/dist.py", line 849, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/build.py", line 106, in run
>     self.run_command(cmd_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/cmd.py", line 328, in run_command
>     self.distribution.run_command(command)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/dist.py", line 849, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 200, in run
>     customize_compiler(self.compiler)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 106, in customize_compiler
>     (cc, opt, ccshared, ldshared, so_ext) = \
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 368, in get_config_vars
>     func()
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 274, in _init_posix
>     parse_makefile(filename, g)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 207, in parse_makefile
>     value = value[:m.start()] + done[n] + after
> TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation
> 
> Am I using the wrong color duct tape here? Or just not enough
> bubblegum?
> 
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>  22nd century: Esperanto, geodesic | Will Ware
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