Compiling informxidb-1.3 on python2.2?

[Mike S.]

> 2. Untar, run configure
Unfortunately, the trouble starts here at step 2.  By any chance do
you have both python1.5 and python2.2 installed?

root at pe informixdb-1.3]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for python... (cached) /usr/bin/python
checking for --with-informix... /opt/informix
checking for esql... (cached) /opt/informix/bin/esql
checking for --enable-thread... no
checking for --enable-shared... yes
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating ext/srcdir
creating ext/Setup
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile.pre.in': No such
file or directory
creating ext/Makefile
make: ./Makefile.pre.in: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `./Makefile.pre.in'.  Stop.
[root at pe informixdb-1.3]#
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Robin Munn <rmunn at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<slrnbmvjva.t30.rmunn at rmunnlfs.dyndns.org>...
> Mike S. <msajec at ieee.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Has anyone had success compiling the informixdb-1.3 module under
> > python 2.2?  It seems the absense of makefile.pre.in in python 2.2
> > causes the break under py2.2. Is there an easy way around this.  I've
> > heard rumors of a manual method, but have been unable to track down
> > details.  Any help is very much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mike
> 
> Here's the step-by-step notes I wrote for myself when I had to do
> exactly that back in May:
> 
> Steps in installing the informixdb module:
> 
> 1. Download informixdb source from
>    http://starship.python.net/crew/sturner/informixdb.html
> 2. Untar, run configure
> 3. Edit ext/Makefile: change CFLAGS (line 100) to include
>    -I${INFORMIXDIR}/incl/esql
> 4. Cd into ext directory
> 5. Run "esql _informix.ec" to generate _informix.c file
> 6. Cd back into parent directory
> 7. Run make
> 8. Copy informixdb.py and ext/_informixdb.so into
>    /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/
> 
> I hope this helps. I did this install on a Red Hat machine that had the
> Informix SDK installed, so I had the esql command available. If you
> don't have esql available, then I'm not sure what you'll need to do.
> 
> Good luck!