Quoting Mikhail Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:48:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have a question on compiling Metakit 2.4.9.3 for Mandrake 10 with Python
> > 2.3.3.
> >
> > I get the following error when I type "python compile.py build" in the
> > ~/metakit/2.4.9.3/metakit-2.4.9.3/python directory:
> >
> ...
> > error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
> > /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
> >
> > Which is good, because there is no /config directory.  Do I need to have
> the
> > python source on my system to install metakit?
> I am using Debian.  For this particular directory, Debian requires
> python2.3-dev package, which includes everything under
> /usr/lib/python2.3/config

I had to install libpython2.3-devel to get the files.  Once that was installed I
needed to do the ../unix/configure from the /build directory.  Then after
"make...make install" I was able to do "python setup.py build" and it worked.

> Hope this helps

Thanks, it helped a lot!

Wayne
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