[Chicago] python prob

[Craig Petty]

This what i am doing after i cd the Python-2.6  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local


--- On Fri, 11/28/08, Brian Ray <bray at sent.com> wrote:

> From: Brian Ray <bray at sent.com>
> Subject: Re: [Chicago] python prob
> To: fasteliteprogrammer at yahoo.com, "The Chicago Python Users Group" <chicago at python.org>
> Cc: "Cosmin Stejerean" <cstejerean at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 7:56 AM
> On Nov 28, 2008, at 2:49 AM, Craig Petty wrote:
> 
> > i can't find hashlib or bz2 for fedora 10.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I do not recall it being this hard to compile 2.6 on fedora
> 10. My suggestion would be posting your configure line or
> even heading to #chipy or #python... for hands on help.
> 
> One thing that could be worth looking into is making sure
> that autoconfig can see the necessary pieces. If the
> environment variables are not set up properly in the shell
> where your trying to build, it may not see some of the
> shared libraries or headers it needs to build any project. 
> One way to fix this is to explicitly point to where these
> items may be found. For example, libbz2 should be located
> under /usr/lib/ for fedora.  I can call " ./configure
> --help" to get a list of option for configure.  It says
> there I can set the environment variable LDFLAGS and things
> like that or explicitly include the bz2 library.
> 
> hth,
> 
> Brian Ray