Re: python install question

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:53:23PM -0800, Aaron Leininger wrote:
> I have been upgrading some of my boxen to 4.85beta3. I have one test
> box that I use that has no GUI installed. I used the ./configure
> --without-zenmap option on this box to speed up the compile since I
> had no use for zenmap in this case. I know zenmap uses python but I
> was surprised to find that the regular install of nmap from source now
> requires python and python-dev to be installed in order to
> successfully complete. The ndiff script at the end of the 'make
> install' command is where the failure was. 
>
> I got: 
>    invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/include/python2.5/pyconfig.h
>
> After installing python2.5-dev, ndiff was successfully installed and
> thus the 'make install' threw no errors. 

I committed some detection code that changes the error to

running install
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python2.6/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
Installing your distribution's python-dev package may solve this problem.

David Fifield

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