Python 2.6.4: ./configure does not work
Albert Hopkins
marduk at letterboxes.org
Sat Oct 31 06:40:10 EDT 2009
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 03:07 -0700, knipknap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running ./configure in the 2.6.4 sources produces the following error:
>
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.pre.in
>
> Indeed, such a file is not contained anywhere in the Pakage.
Which sources are you referring to? Can you verify the checksums:
17dcac33e4f3adb69a57c2607b6de246 13322131 Python-2.6.4.tgz
fee5408634a54e721a93531aba37f8c1 11249486 Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2
> Also, I
> found this note:
> "The Unix build and install process is explained clearly in the README
> file contained in the distribution"
> (http://www.python.org/download/source/)
>
> However, there isn't any README (or INSTALL) file contained in the
> distribution.
>
> sab at mach:/home/sab/Python-2.6.4> find . -name "README"
> ./Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/README
> ./Lib/distutils/README
> ./Lib/test/crashers/README
>
> Any hints?
There is a README at the root of the tarball:
$ pwd
/home/marduk/Desktop/Python-2.6.4
$ head -1 README
This is Python version 2.6.4
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