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[Andy Ray Terrel <aterrel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Johan Jansson wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:57:00PM -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>  
>
> > So I was trying to check out the new pydolfin but when I go to make the 
> > installation I get the following error while running ./configure:
> >
> > checking for Python include path... find: /usr/local/include/python2.3/: 
> > No such file or directory
> > find: /usr/local/include/python/: No such file or directory
> >
> > configure: error: cannot find Python include path
> >
> >
> > So I don't have access to the root folders and was wondering if there 
> > was someway I could redefine this check.  I don't really know much about 
> > the autoconf tool so I really can't read what is going on very well.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >    
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> I think you are simply missing the Python includes, is the file
> "Python.h" anywhere on your system? If not, then you need to install
> the Python development files, in Debian the package is called
> "python-dev".
>
> Otherwise I can't really see what is wrong. The path could probably be
> figured out in a more clever way (the macro is in
> m4/ac_python_devel.m4), but I don't see that it does anything wrong.
>
> What does this give (in Python)?
>
> import distutils.sysconfig
> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()
>
>  Johan
>
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I get that my include folder is here:
/usr/include/python2.3

I can't seem to find m4/ac_python_devel.m4 in the directory I get from 
the cvs.  Is this generated at some point or where should I look.

Thanks,
Andy

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Andy Terrel
Computer Science Dept
University of Chicago
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