Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> writes: > Hi, Python! > > I build Python-2.6.4 on my GNU/Linux (Debian Sarge) box. I get a warning > message "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: .... > _ssl ... RTFS to find out what!".
At a guess, you're missing libssl-dev. You might consider installing python2.6 or python2.6-minimal from unstable or testing too. > I need _ssl for an application. So, I look at setup.py in the top > directory. It seems that _ssl needs to find certain .h files, but is > looking in /usr/local/ssl and /usr/contrib (or subdirectories thereof). > These look like highly non-standard directories. Looks to me like it looks in those non-standard directories, but in addition to normal /usr/include. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
