Re: [Matplotlib-users] "typename" compile problem with pygtk (solution)

[Steve C. <ste...@ya...>]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 18:23 -0800, Rich Drewes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Several users (including Humufr and Niklas Volbers) have reported on this
> list a compile error building matplotlib with pygtk.  The error looks
> something like this:
> 
> In file included from src/_gtkagg.cpp:8:
>  /usr/include/pygtk-2.0/pygobject.h:124: error: parse error before 
> `typename"
>  /usr/include/pygtk-2.0/pygobject.h:131: error: parse error before 
> `typename"
> 
> I also experienced this problem.  It appears to be some sort of namespace
> collision on the token "typename" (what this is colliding with isn't
> clear).  By changing "typename" to "typname" or some other spelling in
> /usr/include/pygtk-2.0/pygobject.h I was then able to build matplotlib
> successfully.
> 
> If someone knows what is causing this and has a better solution, please
> advise.  Perhaps it has something to do with GCC 3.4.x and that particular
> pygtk release.
> 
> Rich Drewes
The problem is a bug in old versions of PyGTK, upgrading to a later version 
(2.4.1 I believe) will fix it.
Regards
Steve

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