2.2.8 => src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:144938: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘d_type’

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

lxml-2.2.8 fails to build on Linux with STATIC=True. libxml2-2.7.7, libxslt-1.1.26 are used for static linking.

[...]
building 'lxml.etree' extension
creating build/temp.linux-i686-3.2
creating build/temp.linux-i686-3.2/src
creating build/temp.linux-i686-3.2/src/lxml
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/tmp/tmpuXy9NF-pypm-lxml-2.2.8/lxml-2.2.8/build/tmp/libxml2/include -I/tmp/tmpuXy9NF-pypm-lxml-2.2.8/lxml-2.2.8/build/tmp/libxml2/include/libxml2 -I/tmp/tmpuXy9NF-pypm-lxml-2.2.8/lxml-2.2.8/build/tmp/libxml2/include/libxslt -I/tmp/tmpuXy9NF-pypm-lxml-2.2.8/lxml-2.2.8/build/tmp/libxml2/include/libexslt -I/opt/ActivePython-3.2/include/python3.2 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-3.2/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -w
src/lxml/lxml.etree.c: In function ‘__Pyx_Method_ClassMethod’:
src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:144938: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘d_type’
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

[scoder (scoder)]

This is a problem with Python 3.2 only. It is fixed in the 2.3 series and won't change in 2.2.x.