python3.7.2 won't compile with SSL support

[Kushal Kumaran]

"Felix Lazaro Carbonell" <felix at epepm.cupet.cu> writes:

> Hello:
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> I'm trying to install python3.7.2 from source in debian9.8  but it doesn't
> compile with SSL.
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> I already installed openssl
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> And ./configure -with-openssl=/usr/include/openssl/ yields:
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> checking for openssl/ssl.h in /usr/include/openssl/... no
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> and ssl.h is certainly in /usr/include/openssl/
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Looks like it is appending openssl/ssl.h to /usr/include/openssl/ and
failing to find the header.  It's been a long time since I attemped to
build python by hand; perhaps you need to not specify the --with-openssl
argument at all, if the headers are installed in the expected places.

Have you seen https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv?

-- 
regards,
kushal