| msg152773 - (view) |
Author: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (tshepang) * |
Date: 2012-02-06 20:46 |
| I was puzzled why the various parts, like readline and ssl, failed to be built into my Python. It was after seeing #11715 that I realized I needed to install dpkg-dev, whose binary, dpkg-architecture, helps detect the locations of those libraries (). |
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| msg152851 - (view) |
Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *  |
Date: 2012-02-08 12:53 |
| Or, rather, setup.py should be smart enough to warn about that. |
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| msg152867 - (view) |
Author: Barry A. Warsaw (barry) * |
Date: 2012-02-08 15:19 |
| On Feb 08, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >Or, rather, setup.py should be smart enough to warn about that. It shouldn't just be limited to Debian and its derivatives. Other platforms (even Linux OSes) will probably have similar issues. |
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| msg152870 - (view) |
Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) * |
Date: 2012-02-08 15:37 |
| > >Or, rather, setup.py should be smart enough to warn about that. > > It shouldn't just be limited to Debian and its derivatives. Other platforms > (even Linux OSes) will probably have similar issues. The issue (having to install dpkg-dev) is specifically about Debian and Ubuntu. I don't think we should have tons of platform-specific instructions in the devguide, and I think that in this case setup.py should detect that the required tool is missing (depending on the platform, of course). |
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| msg152872 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2012-02-08 15:51 |
| The correct way to get build dependencies on Debian and derivatives is to use “aptitude build-dep pythonX.Y” (see #13472). I think dpkg-dev would get installed as a dependency; Tshepang, could you uninstall dpkg-dev and test the aptitude command? |
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| msg152874 - (view) |
Author: Barry A. Warsaw (barry) * |
Date: 2012-02-08 15:55 |
| On Feb 08, 2012, at 03:51 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: >The correct way to get build dependencies on Debian and derivatives is to use >“aptitude build-dep pythonX.Y” (see #13472). I think dpkg-dev would get >installed as a dependency; Tshepang, could you uninstall dpkg-dev and test >the aptitude command? +1 and that definitely works. I use that all the time on new VMs. If it *doesn't* work, then that's a bug in the Debian pythonX.Y package. |
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| msg152875 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2012-02-08 15:57 |
| Then I propose to close this as duplicate of #13472. |
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| msg152878 - (view) |
Author: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (tshepang) * |
Date: 2012-02-08 16:07 |
| @Barry, it does work on Debian as well @Eric, I agree with closing it as a dupe |
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