[boost] boost.python problem with "double real" in python header file

From: Magne Westlie (magnew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-28 11:25:18

I want too use boost.python to make an interface to a C++ library, but 
when I run "bjam" I get the following message:

In file included from $EXT/include/python2.2/Python.h:73,
   from $EXT/src/boost_1_28_0/boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:105,
   from $EXT/src/boost_1_28_0/boost/python/detail/cast.hpp:13,
   from $EXT/src/boost_1_28_0/boost/python/detail/types.hpp:26,
   from $EXT/src/boost_1_28_0/boost/python/classes.hpp:13,
   from $EXT/src/boost_1_28_0/boost/python/detail/extension_class.hpp:21,
   from $EXT/src/boost_1_28_0/boost/python/class_builder.hpp:7,
   from boost-defs.cpp:2:
$EXT/include/python2.2/complexobject.h:10: two or more data types in 
declaration of `type name'
$EXT/include/python2.2/complexobject.h:49: two or more data types in 
declaration of `type name'

Just to see what happened, in the file complexobject.h I commented out:

typedef struct {
     //double real; //this line, which is line 10
     double imag;
} Py_complex;

and line 49, which looks like:

//extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyComplex_FromDoubles(double real, double 
imag);

and then everything worked fine. Can anybody help me with why I have 
this problem with a python header file, and how too fix it.
I am running debian linux with gcc2.95.4 and python2.2.

Magne Westlie