Mark Summerfield added the comment: On 2008-03-03, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > > What I find confusing is: > > > > Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: > > <modules> > > To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the > > module's name. > > > > I find it confusing because AFAIK if a module can't be built it usually > > means that you should change the Modules/Setup file and not setup.py > > itself. (My impression is that the message is aimed at Python developers > > rather than Python users.) > > No, not at all. If you see that message, it usually means you are on > a Linux system, and you have forgotten to install the header files > for the library the module relies on. You need to look into setup.py > to find out what those header files are, and install them. Changing > Modules/Setup won't help at all, as you don't *have* the header > files.
Then why isn't the message something like: Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: <modules> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name and the header files it requires. [snip] > >> In any case, it is deliberate that db 4.6 is not supported - that > >> release doesn't really work. > > > > OK. (But that is a pity since a lot of people use Fedora 8.) > > Please complain to Oracle. I thought it was owned by Berkeley University... oh well. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2219> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
