[Python-Dev] Make test failed issues for phyton 3.2 on centos5.5

[David Malcolm]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 07:58 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
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> On 04/10/2011 08:00 PM, Stephen Yeng wrote:
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> > 11 skips unexpected on linux2:
> >     test_bz2 test_dbm_gnu test_dbm_ndbm test_gzip test_readline
> >     test_ssl test_tcl test_tk test_ttk_guionly test_ttk_textonly
> >     test_zlib
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> Looks like you are missing a bunch of development headers on the system
> (at the time Python's 'configure' was run).  E.g., on a Debian system,
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>  $ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libbz-dev libreadline-dev # etc

On RHEL 5 (and therefore presumably CentOS), the corresponding command
looks something like this:

sudo yum install \
  readline-devel openssl-devel gmp-devel \
  ncurses-devel gdbm-devel zlib-devel expat-devel \
  libGL-devel tk tix gcc-c++ libX11-devel glibc-devel \
  bzip2 tar findutils pkgconfig tcl-devel tk-devel \
  tix-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel \
  db4-devel \
  libffi-devel

You'll want to rerun "configure" after installing these dependencies.

FWIW neither the devguide nor
  http://docs.python.org/using/unix.html#building-python
seems to have a handy guide to how to install all useful build-time deps
on various distros.

I added something similar for PyPy here:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started-python.html#translating-the-pypy-python-interpreter
at the PyCon sprint.

Hope this is helpful
Dave