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 _____________________________________________ Metakit mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit
