[reportlab-users] cannot install reportlab using easy_install

[David Brooks]

You are much better off downloading ReportLab from 
http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html and following the instructions 
in the User Guide -- easy_install is *not* the recommended way to 
install the package....


Dave

On 26/4/09 9:50 PM, Marco Bizzarri wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sorin Sbarnea<sorin.sbarnea at gmail.com>  wrote:

>    

>> I discovered that "easy_install reportlab" fails on Centos, here is the error

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> Making a wild guess: your gcc is newer than the one used to check

> reportlab. The newer version could be more strict than the previous

> ones.

>

> You could post the version of gcc (gcc -v) so that people at reportlab

> can diagnose the problem more properly.

>

> Even though I'm not an expert of easy_install, if you've older

> versions of gcc installerd, maybe you could try to force it to use an

> older version using an "export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-<something>"; however,

> I'm not sure this will not cause troubles with python itself. Again,

> making guesses.

>

> Regards

> Marco

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