Sorry, I have one additional piece of information that might be helpful to others. I have discovered that the *.so files that were not installed, were actually installed to the ~/lib/python2.6/ folder instead of the ~/lib/python2.7/ folder where they belong.
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Ronald Guida <odd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Solved -- "make install" failed to actually install a subset of files. I > had to manually copy them instead. > > Specifics: > I started from /home/oddron/installers/python/Python-2.7/ and executed the > usual commands: > $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME > $ make > $ make install > > I have found that the installer failed to install the contents of > "/home/oddron/installers/python/Python-2.7/build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/", > which contains *.so files. This explains why "import collections" would > work from > the built python in /home/oddron/installers/python/Python-2.7/, but would > fail in the installed > python in /home/oddron/bin/ . > > I manually copied the contents of > "/home/oddron/installers/python/Python-2.7/build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/", > to /home/oddron/lib/python2.7/ and now everything seems to work. > > Thank you > >
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