[4suite] Problems while installing on Solaris7

[Mike Olson]

Daniel Plagge wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to install 4Suite on a Solaris7 box with Python 1.5.2. First
> I installed Distutils 0.9.2, PyXML 0.5.5.1, BisonGen 0.5.0 and SWIG 1.1.p5.
> 
> When I try to install 4Suite 0.9.0rc1 with
>    python setup.py install --prefix=/srv/ifdp/python
> the program stops with the following error:
>   error: unknown file type '.in' (from 'XPath/XPath.bgen.in')
> 
> This is my first attempt to install 4Suite and I'm not very experienced
> in installing Python modules, so it's very possible that I'm missing
> something obvious.

Did it get 1/2 through a build and then bomb previous to this?  Its a
problem with the way we use distutils.  There should be a subdirectory
called build.  Try to blow this away and start fresh.  

Soryy about the confusion.  We are working at getting this better
integrated with distutils....

Mike

> 
> Sincerly,
> Daniel
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 4suite mailing list
> 4suite at lists.fourthought.com
> http://lists.fourthought.com/mailman/listinfo/4suite

-- 
Mike Olson				 Principal Consultant
mike.olson at fourthought.com               (303)583-9900 x 102
Fourthought, Inc.                         http://Fourthought.com 
Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python