Cannot install pyephem on 64-bit machine

[Paul Marganian]

On a 64-bit linux machine:
Python 2.5.2

[dss@trent 2]$ easy_install pyephem
Searching for pyephem
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyephem/
Reading http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
Best match: pyephem 3.7.3.4
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyephem/pyephem-3.7.3.4.tar.gz
Processing pyephem-3.7.3.4.tar.gz
Running pyephem-3.7.3.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-umxhdE/pyephem-3.7.3.4/egg-dist-tmp-qaTkVS
In file included from /home/dss/robin/include/python2.5/Python.h:57,
                 from extensions/_libastro.c:3:
/home/dss/robin/include/python2.5/pyport.h:761:2: error: #error "LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform (bad gcc/glibc config?)."
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
[dss@trent 3]$

I get similar errors when I download the source and try to install by hand.
Thanks.

[Brandon Rhodes (brandon-rhodes)]

Are you using Red Hat 7? There was a bug in the development version of "gcc" that, for unknown reasons, the Red Hat team decided to distribute as though it were a production version of the compiler. See whether this Python FAQ entry helps you out:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python20FrequentlyAskedQuestions#LONGBITError

Good luck! Write back either way so that I know whether this has solved your problem. Thanks!

[Brandon Rhodes (brandon-rhodes)]

Since I see no further activity on this bug, I will assume that it was indeed a problem with Red Hat and close it as invalid. Please do add a new comment here if you were not able to solve your problem! Otherwise, good luck and I hope PyEphem works well for you.

[Anton Norup Sørensen (anton-norup)]

While I am happily using pyephem on a 32bit ubuntu system, I cannot install it on 64 bit:
Linux version 2.6.32-26-generic
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2

sudo easy_install pyephem
Searching for pyephem
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyephem/
Reading http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
Best match: pyephem 3.7.3.4
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyephem/pyephem-3.7.3.4.tar.gz
Processing pyephem-3.7.3.4.tar.gz
Running pyephem-3.7.3.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-mkgjwd/pyephem-3.7.3.4/egg-dist-tmp-B1T9R_
Then a LOT of errors races over the screen - my xterm buffer cannot hold it all. Here is the top and bottom of the buffered content:
extensions/_libastro.c:1046: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
extensions/_libastro.c:1053: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘PyObject’
extensions/_libastro.c:1053: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘PyObject’
extensions/_libastro.c: In function ‘Planet_setup’:
<lots more>
extensions/_libastro.c:2825: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
extensions/_libastro.c:2892: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘libastro_methods’
extensions/_libastro.c:2952: warning: return type defaults to ‘int’
extensions/_libastro.c: In function ‘DL_EXPORT’:
extensions/_libastro.c:2952: error: expected declaration specifiers before ‘init_libastro’
extensions/_libastro.c:3041: error: expected ‘{’ at end of input
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

I hope you can help, thanks, Anton

[Anton Norup Sørensen (anton-norup)]

Got it installed now :)
I was missing the development header files for python 2.6 (Python.h, datetime.h, structmember.h)

[Brandon Rhodes (brandon-rhodes)]

Great! I'm glad that the package is now building for you.