On 23/12/2010 11:00, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: <snip> > apt-get build-dep python 2.6 > should do, the dependencies haven't changed (IMHO). > Then wipe away $HOME/usr/local (if you can, btw), > reset all env vars to default (perhaps reboot). > Then untar python from scratch, cd into that dir, and type > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/local > make > make install > > that should be all. > Otherwise your box is somewhat messed up. > > Anyway, your config.log is of special interest (did I say that already ?)
I started from scratch. I tried to build readline 6 and 5, and installing the packages system wide as opposed to $HOME/local, but everytime Python fails to find it. On stable, apt-get build-dep python 2.6 doesn't work, but apt-get build-dep python 2.5 does so i did that. At configure time, the libreadline library is now found but i have no clue why it didn't find the readline version i built. At the end of the Python build, it still ends with this message: Failed to build these modules: readline The other modules that where automatically installed via the build-dep command are built successfully. I have pasted the config.log here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/308859/ Thanks, Benedict -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list