gobject-introspection

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 21:12 -0500, Eugen wrote:
> On a fresh 8.0 install xorg fails to build at gobject-introspection:
> 
> ...
> checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 script directory...
> &{prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 extension module directory...
> &{exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> checking for headers requires to compile python extensions... not found
> configure: error: Python headers not found
> ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> ...
> 
> Could it probably be because the variables "prefix" and "exec_prefix"
> are not properly expanded to "/usr/local" and "/usr/local/bin" ?

This looks like a problem with your Python installation.  What output do
you get from:

python -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='/usr/local'))"

Joe

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