[Gdal-dev] build problems in ubuntu

[Ken-ichi Ueda]

Ah, thank you!  Installing python-dev and ruby-dev took care of my 
problems.  Still getting used to Ubuntu here, didn't even think to look 
for additional packages containing headers.

Ken-ichi Ueda
Kelly Research and Outreach Lab (http://kellylab.berkeley.edu)
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Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Ken-ichi Ueda wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been trying to get GDAL compiled in Ubuntu (Dapper) without much 
>> success.  Here's what I've been getting with the CVS version from 
>> 7.10.06:
> ...
>> [does alright, then tons of errors with gdal_wrap.cpp, ending in]
>>
>> gdal_wrap.cpp:8726: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token
> ...
>> I'm not really sure what's going on here, especially with Python not 
>> working.  I have Python 2.4.3 and Ruby 1.8.4 installed.  I don't know 
>> if anyone can explain what's going on, but I figured I'd document 
>> these issues.
> 
> Ken-ichi,
> 
> 
> Generally speaking it is the first error that matters most.  I *suspect*
> it will be a report about Python.h not being found.  Is it possible that
> you don't have a python-dev package installed?  The python include files
> are required to build GDAL's Python bindings.
> 
> Best regards,