error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:33 PM, chiranjeevi muttoju wrote:

> Hi,
> When i'm trying to install some modules for python i'm getting the
> fallowing error..
>
> error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit
> status 1
>
> can any one know what it exactly means.. if any body know please
> reply.
> i have gcc version  4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46).
> i'm using python python2.6,
>
> some of the modules getting this type of errors are.. mysqldb, and
> pytc., etc..

Hi Chiranjeevi,
Show us all of the output, please -- everything from where you typed  
'setup.py' until the script died.