[Twisted-Python] error "limits.h missing" while compiling zope interface in Sumo on mac os x 10.4.6 Py 2.4

[Grant Baillie]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 10:46, Nitin Borwankar on Twisted-Python list wrote:

> Hello Twisted gurus,
>
> Apologies if this is a FAQ - couldn't find answers in the obvious
> places. ( list archives, google, ...).
>
> I've been trying to build the TwistedSumo-2006-02-12 package -
> especially the ZopeInterface package within, and am getting the
> following errors
> about limits.h not being found.
> This is on Mac OS X 10.4.6 on a PPC powerbook G4 with gcc 4.0, I tried
> swicthing to 3.3 via gcc_select and got a different error about gcc
> command line switches.
> An 'ls' on
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/include/python2.4/
> indicates that indeed there's no limits.h there.

limits.h is a system header. From the invocation of gcc:

> ...
> building 'zope.interface._zope_interface_coptimizations' extension
> gcc -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd
> -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g
> -IDependencies/zope.interface-ZopeInterface-3.1.0c1/zope.interface
> -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/include/ 
> python2.4 -c
> Dependencies/zope.interface-ZopeInterface-3.1.0c1/zope.interface/ 
> _zope_interface_coptimizations.c
> -o
> build/temp.macosx-10.4-fat-2.4/Dependencies/zope.interface- 
> ZopeInterface-3.1.0c1/zope.interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.o

... it looks as if there's something wrong with your /Developer/SDKs/ 
MacOSX10.4u.sdk, since the compiler should be picking up a correct  
limits.h from somewhere in that tree. Is that directory installed on  
your machine? What version of Xcode do you have?

--Grant

Grant Baillie
Open Source Applications Foundation
http://www.osafoundation.org