[Tutor] PyGreSQL compiliation difficulties

[Charlie Derr]

I think what you are missing is the correct syntax.  I would guess that you
are right about the typo in the instructions.  Try the command without a
space between the -I and the path, ie.

-I//usr/local/pgsql/include/

	hth,
		~c

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: tutor-admin@python.org [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
~ doug@nsacom.net
~ Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:00 AM
~ To: tutor@python.org
~ Subject: [Tutor] PyGreSQL compiliation difficulties
~
~
~ I got the PyGreSQL module from druid.net and have attempted to
~ build it into
~ my Python interpreter. It appears that PyGreSQL was written for
~ Python 1.5
~ and it's installation instructions seem to be somewhat different from the
~ realities of my particular setup.
~
~ The installation instructions in README.linux instruct me to:
~ __________________________________________________
~
~ BUILT-IN TO PYTHON INTERPRETER
~
~ * Find the directory where your 'Setup' file lives (usually
~ ??/Modules) in
~   the Python source hierarchy and copy or symlink the
~ 'pgmodule.c' file there.
~
~ * Add the following line to your Setup file
~     _pg  pgmodule.c -I[pgInc] -L[pgLib] -lpq # -lcrypt # needed on some
~ systems
~   where:
~     [pgInc] = path of PostgreSQL include (often
~ /usr/local/include/python1.5)
~     [pgLib] = path of the PostgreSQL libraries
~ (often /usr/local/lib/python1.5)
~
~ ___________________________________________________
~
~ My first confusion is: Why is it looking for the PostGreSQL inclue and
~ libraries in /usr/local/lib/python.x?
~
~ Undaunted by fear I included the line:
~
~ _pg  pgmodule.c -I /usr/local/include/python2.0 -L
~ /usr/local/lib/python2.0 -
~ lpq  -lcrypt
~
~ which promptly craps with:
~
~ bad word /usr/local/lib/python2.0 in _pg pgmodule.c -
~ I /usr/local/include/python2.0 -L /usr/local/lib/python2.0 -lpq -lcrypt
~
~ which made me say bad words.
~
~ So I got to thinking (O!) Perhaps the instructions contained a
~ typo and it
~ actually wants the path to the PostGreSQL includes etc. ...So:
~
~ _pg  pgmodule.c -I /usr/local/pgsql/include/ -L /usr/local/pgsql/lib/cd  -
~ lpq  -lcrypt
~
~ which gave me the same error.
~
~ Then I really got to wondering: Isn't all this mapping out of
~ include files
~ done for us by the deep, unfathomable majick of ./configure?
~
~ so I tried the vanilla approach:
~
~ _pg  pgmodule.c -lpq  -lcrypt
~
~ Which seemed to be percolating along nicely until:
~
~ ./pgmodule.c:30: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory
~
~ I do indeed have libpq installed as part of
~ postgres: /usr/local/postgres/libpq-fe.h
~
~ Obviously it is crapping out because I don't have the path included that
~ causes it to crap out. ;-)
~
~
~ So what am I missing? I am building this on Slackware 7.0. Python and
~ Postgres have built and functioned just fine thereupon. Is there a way to
~ include the pgmodule.c and it's attendant files in ./configure?
~ (I am sure
~ this is where part of the answer lies...) Python needs to know where the
~ pgsql libraries are when it builds and it needs to know to build
~ the pygres
~ module... now I need to know how to tell configure!
~
~ Thanks folks
~
~
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