[Twisted-Python] Help -- can't install Twisted/Zope on x86_64 (RHEL5-beta)

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:19:49 -0800, Margaret Lum <mlum at redhat.com> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm trying to install Twisted/Zope on a 64-bit RHEL5 (beta) system with the 
>following packages installed:
>
>mod_python-3.2.8-3.1
>postgresql-python-8.1.4-1.1
>python-2.4.3-18.fc6
>python-2.4.3-19.el5
>python-elementtree-1.2.6-5
>python-krbV-1.0.13-4.el5
>python-ldap-2.2.0-2.1
>python-numeric-23.7-2.2.2
>python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1
>python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-1
>python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2
>
>This is the error I get when attempting to install both TwistedCore-2.5.0:
>python setup.py install
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "setup.py", line 20, in ?
>    from twisted import copyright
>  File "./twisted/__init__.py", line 22, in ?
>    raise ImportError("you need zope.interface installed "
>ImportError: you need zope.interface installed 
>(http://zope.org/Products/ZopeInterface/)
>
>And subsequently ../zope.interface-3.3.0:
>running install
>running build
>running build_py
>running build_ext
>building '_zope_interface_coptimizations' extension
>gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall 
>-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer- 
>size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC 
>-I/usr/include/python2.4 -c 
>src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.c -o build/temp.linux- 
>x86_64-2.4/src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.o
>src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.c:15:20: error: Python.h: 
>No such file or directory
>src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.c:16:26: error: 
>structmember.h: No such file or directory
>
>Any quick tips would be appreciated.  Thanks for your time.
>

I'm not terribly familiar with RHEL, but it looks like the Python packager
has done the typical thing and split out the files which he/she decided are
only useful for development purposes into a separate package (often named
python-dev or some such).  If this is the case, installing that package
should give you the necessary header files to build Python extension modules.

Jean-Paul