[XML-SIG] Installing PyXml Help.

[Paul Boddie]

On Sunday 22 May 2005 18:14, Amitpython5 at aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I'm relatively new to Python, and ran into an error while installing
> PyXml. I have Python 2.1 installed on my HP-UX host, and everything has
> been running fine. I'm trying to install Soap package, which needs to have 
> PyXml installed. When I try to install PyXml, I get the following  message:

[...]

> extensions/pyexpat.c:5:20:  Python.h: No such file or directory
> extensions/pyexpat.c:8:21: compile.h: No  such file or directory
> extensions/pyexpat.c:9:25: frameobject.h: No such file  or directory
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>
> How do I get Python.h and the other missing files?
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

This looks very similar to the classic case of "overpackaging" seen in many 
Linux distributions, where the Python binaries and libraries are installed 
but not the header files. I can't really remember what the packaging policy 
is for the various proprietary UNIX variants, but I imagine that the headers 
didn't get installed with the Python package and that you either have to find 
the "development" Python package with all the missing bits or, and this is 
what I always tended to do, install Python in some non-official location 
using the source distribution (/usr/local might be alright - that's the 
default - but anywhere will do).

Since you've clearly got development tools installed, I'd actually recommend 
that you install Python from source, especially since there aren't so many 
compelling reasons to stick with Python 2.1.

Paul