Re: Building Python-2.6.4 on G/L: can't build in _ssl support.

Alan Mackenzie 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 p

Building Python-2.6.4 on G/L: can't build in _ssl support.

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!". I need _ssl for an application. So, I look at setup.py in the top directory. It seems that _ssl needs