It might be slightly off topic here but couldn't find a more suitable place for this question:
I'm trying to build the python binding for ming -- http://ming.sf.net -- but for some reason the python macro for autoconf -- python.m4 -- doesn't seem to detect my python installation correctly. The strange thing is that it seemingly detects everything correctly, but a final check still fails. I have the python 2.5 source distribution installed to /usr/local the standard location. Configuring ming fails with: checking for python... /usr/local/bin/python checking for python2.5... (cached) /usr/local/bin/python checking for a version of Python >= '2.1.0'... yes checking for the distutils Python package... yes checking for Python include path... -I/usr/local/include/python2.5 checking for Python library path... -L/usr/local/lib/python2.5 -lpython2.5 checking for Python site-packages path... /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages checking python extra libraries... -lpthread -ldl -lutil checking python extra linking flags... -Xlinker -export-dynamic checking consistency of all components of python development environment... no configure: error: Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure, via the LDFLAGS environment variable. Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib" ============================================================================ ERROR! You probably have to install the development version of the Python package for your distribution. The exact name of this package varies among them. ============================================================================ and all variables above are correct. It apparently found PYTHON_CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/python2.5 PYTHON_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/python2.5 -lpython2.5 PYTHON_SITE_PKG=/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages PYTHON_EXTRA_LIBS=-lpthread -ldl -lutil PYTHON_EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-Xlinker -export-dynamic all correctly, yet the final check fails. I even tried configuring with PYTHON_NOVERSIONCHECK and LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/python2.5 and gave the above environment variables manually but still the same final check fails. Apparently it's not a ming but an autoconf issue. Anyone familiar with python.m4? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
