Hi,

I've spent most of the day on this, and it is driving me absolutely insane. On all other Unixes I've used, this is a walk in the park, but SLES 11 has me dumbfounded.

I need to build Zope on SLES 11 64 bit:

Linux <name> 2.6.27.45-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-02-22 16:49:47 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I first tried to just use the YaST-installed Python 2.6. I've also installed python-devel, libjpeg-devel, readline-devel, libopenssl-devel, libz2-devel, zlib-devel, and libgcrypt-devel.

The global python2.6 has a lot of cruft in it, and seems to execute stuff in /etc/pythonstart when I use it, which doesn't help. However, the error I get is this:

Getting distribution for 'Zope2==2.12.3'.
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:596: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:598: warning: ‘intargfunc’ is deprecated
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:598: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:599: warning: ‘intargfunc’ is deprecated
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:599: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:600: warning: ‘intintargfunc’ is deprecated
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:600: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:601: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:602: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:606: warning: ‘intargfunc’ is deprecated
src/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c:606: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so when searching for -lpython2.6
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.6
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
An error occured when trying to install Zope2 2.12.3. Look above this message for any errors that were output by easy_install.

I don't know what "incompatible" is referring to here; my guess would be the hardware architecture, but I'm not sure what's incompatible with what in the statement above.

I've had problems with system-installed Pythons before, so I tried to compile my own (hence the list of -devel packages above), downloading the Python 2.6 tarball and running:

./configure --disable-tk --prefix=${HOME}/python
make
make install

This installs, but it seems to be unable to find any system-wide libraries. Here's a sample interpreter session:

Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Mar 29 2010, 17:04:12) 
[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/etc/pythonstart", line 7, in <module>
    import readline
ImportError: No module named readline
>>> from hashlib import md5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/osc/python-2.6/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 136, in <module>
    md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
  File "/home/osc/python-2.6/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor
    import _md5
ImportError: No module named _md5

Both readline and hashlib (via libgrypt) should be installed, and the relevant -devel packages are also installed. On Ubuntu or OS X, this works just fine. On SuSE, no luck.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Martin