Problem building on BeOS...

[Zoo Keeper]

For some reason, the Python preprocessing balks on the "\" line continuation
character.  Any ideas/thoughts?  Is it just that my version of gcc is not
supported?

I don't "need" numeric in my current project, but it is a nice package to have!
 Apps that do not need to be compiled install and run fine.  Actually, SQLite
built and installed fine...

Thanks, in advance.

Mike

Python 2.2.2 (#13, Dec  6 2002, 00:42:47)
[GCC 2.9-beos-991026] on beos5

$ python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
not copying Lib/ArrayPrinter.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/LinearAlgebra.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/MLab.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/Matrix.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/Numeric.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/Precision.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/RandomArray.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/UserArray.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Lib/numeric_version.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Packages/FFT/Lib/FFT.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Packages/FFT/Lib/__init__.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Packages/MA/Lib/MA.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Packages/MA/Lib/MA_version.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Packages/MA/Lib/__init__.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Packages/RNG/Lib/Statistics.py (output up-to-date)
not copying Packages/RNG/Lib/__init__.py (output up-to-date)
running build_ext
building '_numpy' extension
gcc -DNDEBUG -O -IInclude -IPackages/FFT/Include -IPackages/RNG/Include
-I/boot/home/config/include/python2.2 -c Src/_numpymodule.c -o
build/temp.beos-5.0.4-BePC-2.2/_numpymodule.o
In file included from /boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Src/_numpymodule.c:4:
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:234: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:239: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:241: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:244: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:247: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:251: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:253: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:255: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/arrayobject.h:257: stray '\'
in program
In file included from /boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Src/_numpymodule.c:6:
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/ufuncobject.h:101: stray '\'
in program
/boot/home/Downloads/Numeric-23.1/Include/Numeric/ufuncobject.h:103: stray '\'
in program
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
$