[BioPython] stray '\' in program

[Hugh R]

System is sun sparc solaris2.8 I believe. 
Ok, I tried installing a new gcc. 3.3 crapped out during the build, but 3.0 
worked. Now I can make a small C program and declare variables of type va_list 
and __builtin_va_list, which is a typedef of va_list. 
But I still have the same problem building the egenix package. The function 
va_start is getting passed a variable of type va_list. Thats the line that seems 
to be causing the problem. The variable args is declared as va_list, but the 
compiler complaint refers to   __builtin_va_list.
 

In file included from mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mx.h:51,
                 from mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxDateTime.c:41:
mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxstdlib.h: In function `mxDebugPrintf':
mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxstdlib.h:192: `__builtin_va_alist' undeclared (first 
use in this function)
mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxstdlib.h:192: (Each undeclared identifier is reported 
only once
mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxstdlib.h:192: for each function it appears in.)
mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxstdlib.h:150: warning: `args' might be used 
uninitialized in this function
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1


I tried aliasing gcc with gcc -std=c99, but the same thing happened. 

 This mean much to anyone? 

thanks
Hugh


>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:29:53 -0700
>Subject: Re: [BioPython] stray '\' in program
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>From: Jeffrey Chang <jchang at jeffchang.com>
>To: Hugh R <hugh at parvati.msu.montana.edu>
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>The Python.h file comes with the python distribution.  What system are 
>you on?  Are you on some time of linux/unix or windows?  If it is on 
>linux, and you are using RPM's, perhaps the python-devel library is not 
>installed?  Or if it's windows, it might be a pathing problem.
>
>Jeff
>
>
>
>On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 11:02  AM, Hugh R wrote:
>
>> I am worried about that! I tried the Numeric...tar.gz instead and that 
>> seems to
>> have built and installed ok. I can import Numeric from the python 
>> interpreter.
>> No luck with the mx stuff though.
>>  One thing I noticed, the mx.h file includes a Python.h file, which I 
>> haven't
>> been able to locate.
>>   I tried a simple C program. It didn't like the \ character. I 
>> included
>> stdarg.h and it didn't complain, but I'm not too sure how to test it 
>> further.
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:55:41 -0700
>>> Subject: Re: [BioPython] stray '\' in program
>>> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552)
>>> Cc: biopython at biopython.org
>>> To: Hugh R <hugh at parvati.msu.montana.edu>
>>> From: Jeffrey Chang <jchang at jeffchang.com>
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>>
>>> Based on this and your previous message, it really sounds like there's
>>> something wrong with your gcc installation.  Can you compile any C
>>> programs, or just not Python libraries?  \ is a line continuation
>>> character in C, so I'm not sure what it's complaining about.  Also,
>>> from the previous post, __builtin_va_alist sounds like something from
>>> stdarg.  Try making a small test C program, and #include <stdarg.h> to
>>> see if it complains.  That should not generate any errors, and if it
>>> does, I'd start looking more closely to see if your gcc is set up
>>> correctly.  The include files may be incorrect or out of date.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 08:41  AM, Hugh R wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, now I'm trying to install numpy, to see if that goes any better.
>>>> So I unzip
>>>> the Numeric--.zip file, and do the python setup.py build, and I get a
>>>> whole lot
>>>> of stray '\' in program error messages from gcc. I know the \ is a 
>>>> line
>>>> continuation character in python, but its not in C (????)
>>>>  Whats up with this?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
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