Re: [gnome-love] Error while building through JHbuild

[Robin Sonefors <ozamosi flukkost nu>]

On lör, 2010-10-16 at 18:05 +0530, Aman (neshu) Agarwal wrote:
> The error which I mentioned is fixed now .. but now I am stucked @ 15th
> package *gobject-introspection*
>
> checking for backtrace_symbols... yes
> checking whether Python support is requested... checking for a Python
> interpreter with version >= 2.5... python
> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> checking for python version... 2.6
> checking for python platform... linux2
> checking for python script directory...
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> checking for python extension module directory...
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> checking for headers required to compile python extensions... not found
> configure: error: Python headers not found
> *** Error during phase configure of gobject-introspection: ########## Error
> running ./configure --prefix /opt/gnome --libdir '/opt/gnome/lib'
> --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [15/74]
>
>
> while python is already installed
> [~/checkout/gnome/gobject-introspection-0.6.14]
> 18:04:48 $ python --version
> Python 2.6.5

It's not looking for python, the application. It's looking for python's
development headers. These are usually available from your distribution
in a package named something like python-devel or python-dev or possibly
libpython-dev. This is a general rule when compiling software: when it
says something isn't found, you're probably missing the development
headers.