[Freeipa-users] Compilation error

[Rob Crittenden]

Calum wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to install FreeIPA on Redhat 5.7, and I'm having some troubles.
> I believe I'm not missing any dependencies.
>
> Can anyone tell me what is causing the problem below? (Yes, I'm
> running make as root - it's not a problem in this instance)
>
> # make
> if [ ! -e RELEASE ]; then echo 0>  RELEASE; fi
> sed -e s/__VERSION__/2.1.0/ -e s/__RELEASE__/0/ \
>                  freeipa.spec.in>  freeipa.spec
> sed -e s/__VERSION__/2.1.0/ version.m4.in \
>                  >  version.m4
> sed -e s/__VERSION__/2.1.0/ ipapython/setup.py.in \
>                  >  ipapython/setup.py
> sed -e s/__VERSION__/2.1.0/ ipapython/version.py.in \
>                  >  ipapython/version.py
> perl -pi -e "s:__NUM_VERSION__:210:" ipapython/version.py
> perl -pi -e "s:__API_VERSION__:2.11:" ipapython/version.py
> sed -e s/__VERSION__/2.1.0/ daemons/ipa-version.h.in \
>                  >  daemons/ipa-version.h
> perl -pi -e "s:__NUM_VERSION__:210:" daemons/ipa-version.h
> perl -pi -e "s:__DATA_VERSION__:20100614120000:" daemons/ipa-version.h
> sed -e s/__VERSION__/2.1.0/ -e s/__RELEASE__/0/ \
>                  ipa-client/ipa-client.spec.in>  ipa-client/ipa-client.spec
> sed -e s/__VERSION__/2.1.0/ ipa-client/version.m4.in \
>                  >  ipa-client/version.m4
> if [ "" != "yes" ]; then \
>                  ./makeapi --validate; \
>          fi
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./makeapi", line 280, in ?
>      sys.exit(main())
>    File "./makeapi", line 258, in main
>      api.finalize()
>    File "/root/freeipa-2.1.0/ipalib/plugable.py", line 578, in finalize
>      self.__do_if_not_done('load_plugins')
>    File "/root/freeipa-2.1.0/ipalib/plugable.py", line 388, in __do_if_not_done
>      getattr(self, name)()
>    File "/root/freeipa-2.1.0/ipalib/plugable.py", line 530, in load_plugins
>      self.import_plugins('ipalib')
>    File "/root/freeipa-2.1.0/ipalib/plugable.py", line 568, in import_plugins
>      raise e
>    File "/root/freeipa-2.1.0/ipalib/dn.py", line 1069
>      rdn = RDN(*avas, first_key_match=self.first_key_match)
>                                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> make: *** [version-update] Error 1
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Calum

You will have some serious difficulties getting the server to build in 
5.x due to the version of python. We don't support the server in RHEL 5.

rob