[Tutor] sockets broken on New Install???

[Bruce Sass]

Hi,

Have a look in <source tree>/Modules/Setup, search for "_socket" (and
"EXPAT_DIR" to get the expat, minidom and sax stuff working)... you
probably just need to edit a little and re-make.

"locate" and "grep" are a couple of standard commands that will help
with finding where the headers and libs for stuff lives ("find" is a
good one to know about also).

e.g,:
~$ locate openssl | grep include | less
/usr/include/kde/kopenssl.h
/usr/include/openssl
/usr/include/openssl/asn1.h
...

gives me a clue on how to edit the socket section in Setup.

[probably no need to bother the sysadmin]


- Bruce

-- 
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Sheila King wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:41:01 -0700, Sheila King <sheila@thinkspot.net>
> wrote about [Tutor] sockets broken on New Install???:
>
> :119 tests OK.
> :4 tests failed: test___all__ test_asynchat test_socket test_sundry
> :16 tests skipped: test_al test_cd test_cl test_dl test_gl test_imgfile
> :test_largefile test_linuxaudiodev test_minidom test_nis test_pyexpat
> :test_sax test_socketserver test_sunaudiodev test_winreg test_winsound
> :make: *** [test] Error 1
> :
> :Having sockets not work is a real problem.
>
> Well, here is an additional clue. I checked the config.log file for
> "socket" and find this message:
>
> configure:3264: checking for socket in -lsocket
> configure:3283: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lsocket -ldl  -ldl
> 1>&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsocket
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 3272 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
> /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
>     builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
> char socket();
>
> int main() {
> socket()
> ; return 0; }
>
>
> I guess I have to ask my admin where the lsocket is??? I dunno?
>
> --
> Sheila King
> http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
> http://www.k12groups.org/
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tutor maillist  -  Tutor@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
>