Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to find Python development headers

[Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2012/3/29 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Adding Roger.
> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 03:59 +0100, KUWAMURA Shin'ya wrote:
>> Hi Yang,
>>
>> >>>>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:19:36 +0000
>> >>>>> yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx("Zhang, Yang Z") Âsaid:
>> >
>> > When running ./configure, I get the following error message:
>> > checking for python... /usr/bin/python
>> > checking for python version >= 2.3 ... yes
>> > ./configure: line 6147: python-config: command not found
>> > ./configure: line 6228: python-config: command not found
>> > checking Python.h usability... no
>> > checking Python.h presence... no
>> > checking for Python.h... no
>> > configure: error: Unable to find Python development headers
>> > I use rhel5.5 and here is the installed python RPM on my box:
>> > Is there any pkg I need to install?
>>
>> Python 2.4 does not have python-config.
>
> I think we need handle this case with a fallback for pytyhon 2.3 and 2.4
> which doesn't use python-config.
>
> What did we used to do pre-autoconf?

If I recall correctly we only checked for Python.h existence.

>> If you don't require Python tools, you can run:
>> Â ./configure --disable-pythontools
>>
>> Or you may avoid it:
>> Â ./configure APPEND_INCLUDES=/usr/include/python2.4/
>>
>> However, you will find an another issue:
>>
>> checking for PyArg_ParseTuple in -l... no
>> configure: error: Unable to find a suitable python development library
>
> Presumably this is a knock on effect from the previous failure and the
> workaround you tried, which looks incomplete to me. I expect you need to
> add -lpythonX.Y to some variable or other but the right solution is to
> fix the python detection for the older python versions.

I've just posted a patch that hopefully covers all the supported
python versions, so we don't have to perform different checks
depending on the python versions, which is annoying.

>>
>> I'm afraid I don't know how to avoid this issue.
>>
>> Best regards,
>
>

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