scons error

[Joseph Borg]

This is what I get when I try to compile. Can I get some help please?

[root@box pyexiv2]# scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
g++ -o build/exiv2wrapper.os -c -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 src/exiv2wrapper.cpp
/usr/include/boost/python/return_opaque_pointer.hpp: In member function 'PyObject* boost::python::detail::opaque_conversion_holder<Pointer>::operator()(Pointer) const':
/usr/include/boost/python/return_opaque_pointer.hpp:25: error: expected initializer before '<' token
/usr/include/boost/python/return_opaque_pointer.hpp:28: error: expected primary-expression before '.' token
scons: *** [build/exiv2wrapper.os] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Joe, can you please detail what versions of pyexiv2 and its dependencies you are trying to compile?

Note that the 0.3 series of pyexiv2 requires Python ≥ 2.6, and I see here that you are compiling against Python 2.4.

See the documentation for more details on the required dependencies: http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/developers.html.

[Joseph Borg (joeborg)]

I'm stuck with 2.4 for the time being, can I compile 0.2.2 on 2.4?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I haven’t tested compiling against Python 2.4 for a long time, so I’m not sure that even pyexiv2 0.2.2 will compile, but in any case it would be worth giving it a try. Your feedback will be welcome!

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Joe, any progress on this front?
Have you managed to compile pyexiv2 0.2.2 on Python 2.4?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The scons script could easily be improved to check the version of Python before starting compilation and fail gracefully with a meaningful error message when Python < 2.6.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Fixed at revision 362 of lp:~osomon/pyexiv2/pyexiv2-0.3.

The build script will now check that the version of Python is ≥ 2.6, and it will fail gracefully with a meaningful error message if this requirement is not met.