[Pysparse-users] build problem

[Ranjit C. <rjc...@gm...>]

I just tried to build pysparse on my mac running 10.5.8 and it failed with
the message below. Why did it fail?
>>python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5
creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/__version__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/directSolver.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/itsolvers_util.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/poisson.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/poisson_vec.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/pysparseMatrix.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/pysparseSuperLU.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/pysparseUmfpack.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/sparray.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/sparseMatrix.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
copying Lib/spmatrix_util.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse
running build_ext
building 'pysparse.spmatrix' extension
creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5
creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/Src
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd
-fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3
-I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.0.0/include -DNUMPY=1
-IInclude
-I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.0.0/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/include
-I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.0.0/include/python2.5 -c
Src/spmatrixmodule.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/Src/spmatrixmodule.o
In file included from Src/spmatrixmodule.c:24:
Src/ll_mat.c:3146: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
In file included from Src/spmatrixmodule.c:26:
Src/sss_mat.c:216: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
gcc -g -L/usr/local/lib
-L/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.0.0/lib -bundle -undefined
dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/Src/spmatrixmodule.o -o
build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse/spmatrix.so
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libSystem.dylib
unknown flags (type) of section 6 (__TEXT,__literal16) in load command 0
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1