Following up on James` suggestion, have posted transcript of compilation log below.

Not sure if there is anything should worry about here.

Strangely, the ton of warnings saw the first time I tried went away...

running build
running build_ext
building 'pythonDaq' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../generic/ -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c pythonDaq.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/pythonDaq.o
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
c++ -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/pythonDaq.o -lz -lm -lrt -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/pythonDaq.so
running install
running build
running build_ext
running install_lib
creating lib
creating lib/python
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/pythonDaq.so -> ./lib/python
running install_egg_info
Writing ./lib/python/PackageName-1.0.egg-info
-rwxrwxr-x 1 xrm xrm 817014 May 18 10:59 bin/develTest