[reportlab-users] Reportlab compiling in Linux

[David Frank]

Hi Rich, Robin, and Andy,

Thank you for your replies. Python is not the problem because I have run 
several python applications on the same machine
without any issues. I think it's just with ReportLab. I guess I was using 
the wrong word when I stated the problem. The System 
Admin is not able to build the software. I told him to use the ready made 
software, but he refuses to do so since he says that 
the Server machine is very different from the normal computer (duh!). He 
says that since it is not mentioned anywhere that 
reportlab can be used on a 64-bit computer, it is better to build the 
software. Then, he ran like a thousand commands (all from 
the documentation, of course) and then told me that he could not build it. 
He ran the tests, (reportlab/tests) and they all failed. I 
asked him to give me the error message so that I can use them in the 
forum, but he said that there were a lot of errors and he 
could not get them all back. He told the errors were because Reportlab did 
not compile properly. In other words, he means 
that reportlab was not built properly. I'm quite sure that the fault was 
on his side since he's known to have caused problems 
with other people's applications before.

But, it is good to hear that reportlab has no problem with a 64-bit 
processor. The development environment is as such: 64-bit 
Xeon processor, 4 GB RAM, CentOS operating system (a version of RHL 
Enterprise), Dell Cluster. Pretty robust environment 
actually !!! The location of the python library files are 
/usr/lib64/python2.3 and the location of the python interpreter is 
/usr/bin.

I've installed reportlab onto my home directory. I've set the $PATH 
variable to point to the reportlab folder location but it looks like 
that is not going to be enough and that I will need to add the '.pth' file 
in the location of the python interpreter which is /usr/bin in my 
case. I dont know if that will fix all these problems for me but that is 
what I can try for now.

I truly appreciate all your efforts. I will be grateful for some more 
advise on what I should do to get out of this nightmare.

Thank you,

David





> Hi David, I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. Perhaps you could explain 

what you

> mean by 'compile'? Did you manage to get reportlab to do what you want 

or not?

> The only bits that might need compiling are the various C extensions 

that might

> be required to produce bitmaps (or to accelerate the other bits of 

reportlab).

> So far as I know the latest code doesn't break in 64 bit environments, 

but so

> far I've only been able to build on 32 bit machines plus a single AMD64 

freeBSD

> system without any problems. Perhaps you could say what you're trying to 

achieve

> and what environment you're using for the development?

> --

> Robin Becker




> Is it possible the administrator is actually talking about compiling

> Python, not ReportLab's libraries?  That might well be more of a

> headache if he hasn't done it before.



> - Andy




> David,

> How many Python libraries do you have installed on your system(s)? The

> reportlab download should be untarred in some directory, then a user 

with

> root privileges types 'python setup.py install'. That automatically runs 

the

> build routine, then installs the libraries where your 

python/site-packages/

> directory is located.



> Unlike an application written in C or C++. you don't need to follow the

> five-step: untar, cd to that directory, ./configure, make, make install.



> - Rich





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