On Jun 10, 10:51 pm, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On building Python 2.7.5 I got the following message: > > Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules > were not found: > dl imageop linuxaudiodev > spwd sunaudiodev > To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() > for the module's name. > > It carried on with the installation OK, but I don't understand the last > sentence in the message. How can I find out exactly what modules are > missing, and what I need to do to make sure they are built next time?
On a debian box (which includes ubuntu etc), doing: # aptitude build-dep python will get you all the packages you need to build python. You can use apt-get instead of aptitude. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
