[ovs-discuss] python error while making a OVS 1.11

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Fri Sep 13 16:10:02 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> Guru, should we add that to the packaging?

I am finding this a little tricky. Centos does not have a package
called python-xml. So if I add this to BuildRequires for the general
rpm spec file, it will fail. We do not have a separate INSTALL file
for suse linux. I am not sure adding a note in INSTALL.RHEL is the
right way here.

>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:47:58AM +0300, Eugene Istomin wrote:
>> Thanks Ben,
>>
>> adding "BuildRequires: python-xml" solve this issue.
>> --
>> */Best regards,/*
>> /Eugene Istomin/
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 03:05:52PM +0300, Eugene Istomin wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > We have a python error while making a OVS 1.11:
>> > >
>> > > [  145s] + make -j4
>> > > [  145s] PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=yes PYTHONPATH=./python:
>> > > $PYTHONPATH /usr/bin/python ./ofproto/ipfix-gen-entities
>> ofproto/ipfix.xml
>> > > > ofproto/ipfix-entities.def
>> > > [  145s] PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=yes PYTHONPATH=./python:
>> > > $PYTHONPATH /usr/bin/python ./ovsdb/ovsdb-idlc.in annotate
>> > > ./vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema ./lib/vswitch-idl.ann >
>> > > lib/vswitch-idl.ovsidl.tmp [  145s] PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=yes
>> > > PYTHONPATH=./python:
>> > > $PYTHONPATH /usr/bin/python ./ovsdb/ovsdb-idlc.in -C . annotate
>> > > tests/idltest.ovsschema tests/idltest.ann > tests/idltest.ovsidl.tmp
>> > > [  145s] Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > > [  145s]   File "./ofproto/ipfix-gen-entities", line 13, in <module>
>> > > [  145s]     import xml.sax
>> > > [  145s] ImportError: No module named xml.sax
>> >
>> > It looks like you should install xml.sax.  The Python library manual
>> > seems to indicates that it is a standard part of Python.  Maybe you have
>> > a stripped-down version installed.
>>



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