Hi all, I'm now installing Python 2.7.3 and NumPy 1.6.1 on clean-installed CentOS 6.2. At first, I installed Python as below:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared make make install vi /etc/ld.so.conf #add /usr/local/lib /sbin/ldconfig and successfully installed NumPy.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python-273 --enable-shared make make install vi /etc/ld.so.conf #add /usr/local/python-273/lib /sbin/ldconfig

But if I install Python as below: then "setup.py build" dumped these errors:

compile options: '-Inumpy/core/include -Ibuild/src.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/include/numpy -Inumpy/core/src/private -Inumpy/core/src -Inumpy/core -Inumpy/core/src/npymath -Inumpy/core/src/multiarray -Inumpy/core/src/umath -Inumpy/core/include -I/usr/local/python-273/include/python2.7 -Ibuild/src.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/src/multiarray -Ibuild/src.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/src/umath -c' gcc: build/src.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/src/_sortmodule.c gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/build/src.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/src/_sortmodule.o -L. -Lbuild/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7 -lnpymath -lm -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/_sort.so /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.7 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.7 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status error: Command "gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/build/src.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/src/_sortmodule.o -L. -Lbuild/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7 -lnpymath -lm -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/numpy/core/_sort.so" failed with exit status 1

How could I build NumPy for Python on specified directory?