In article <CABmUWRnB=oudppgskjj-rnwvjoqz3in4-wkfmxfraylzcv+...@mail.gmail.com>, John S James <john2ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > My ISP (Bluehost) does not yet support Python version 3, but gave me shell > access (no sudo) so that I can install Python 3 myself on my server account > (running Apache). So I uploaded the standard Python.org installation package > (Python 3.2.1 for Linux) and followed instructions, starting with > ./configure. These instructions had worked for me before, to install Python3 > on a Linux netbook. > > But on the server, ./configure starts fine, but later stops with an error. > Here is the section of the output where the error occurred: > *checking for build directories... done* > *configure: creating ./config.status* > *config.status: creating Makefile.pre* > *config.status: creating Modules/Setup.config* > *config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Misc/python.pc.in'* > > Then the ./configure step stopped. Needless to say, the next step, Make, did > not work because there was no Makefile.
Works for me on a current Debian system. Are you downloading the source from python.org? Did you verify that the file is created by tar? $ curl -O http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2.1/Python-3.2.1.tgz $ tar xzf Python-3.2.1.tgz $ cd ./Python-3.2.1/ $ ls -l Misc/python.pc.in -rw-r----- 1 nad nad 293 Jul 8 23:58 Misc/python.pc.in $ ./configure [...] configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile.pre config.status: creating Modules/Setup.config config.status: creating Misc/python.pc config.status: creating Modules/ld_so_aix config.status: creating pyconfig.h creating Modules/Setup creating Modules/Setup.local creating Makefile If you are still having problems, chances are you have an out-of-date or incomplete version of GNU autotools which contains the macros and tools that are used by the ./configure script. On my system: $ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68 -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
