setup.py syntax error building python-imaging

[Sherwin J. Singer]

PROBLEM SOLVED.  I found an rpm built especially to install python-imaging 
under RH7.3.  Now I can use Sketch.

[The rpm is available at the Sketch web site.  It would not download 
yesterday...but mysteriously, it worked today.]

Thanks again for your help,
  Sherwin


Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Sherwin J. Singer wrote:
> 
>> Thanks very much for your very quick responses.  Of course, David is
>> totally
>> correct and invoking python2 gets the ball rolling.  Then I hit another
>> problem:
>>
>> distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation:
>> unable to open /usr/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile (No such file or
>> directory)
>>
>> Indeed there is no config directory in either /usr/lib/python2.2 or
>> /usr/lib/python1.5.
>>
>> Please let me know if there is a convenient fix.  Otherwise I'll wait
>> until
>> I upgrade from RH7.3.  (My goal is to install Sketch.  Hey, xfig is still
>> OK for now.)
> 
> I think you'll need to install the "python2-devel" package.
> 
> (iirc, the default RedHat 7.x install doesn't include the additional
> files needed to build new Python extensions)
> 
> </F>

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Sherwin Singer
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Ohio State University
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