[BioPython] stray '\' in program

[Jeffrey Chang]

Based on this and your previous message, it really sounds like there's 
something wrong with your gcc installation.  Can you compile any C 
programs, or just not Python libraries?  \ is a line continuation 
character in C, so I'm not sure what it's complaining about.  Also, 
from the previous post, __builtin_va_alist sounds like something from 
stdarg.  Try making a small test C program, and #include <stdarg.h> to 
see if it complains.  That should not generate any errors, and if it 
does, I'd start looking more closely to see if your gcc is set up 
correctly.  The include files may be incorrect or out of date.

Jeff


On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 08:41  AM, Hugh R wrote:

> Ok, now I'm trying to install numpy, to see if that goes any better. 
> So I unzip
> the Numeric--.zip file, and do the python setup.py build, and I get a 
> whole lot
> of stray '\' in program error messages from gcc. I know the \ is a line
> continuation character in python, but its not in C (????)
>  Whats up with this?
>
> thanks
>
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