SF.net SVN: matplotlib:[7223] trunk/toolkits/basemap/README

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Revision: 7223
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=7223&view=rev
Author:   jswhit
Date:     2009-06-16 18:31:57 +0000 (Tue, 16 Jun 2009)

Log Message:
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add "python-dev" package suggestion.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/toolkits/basemap/README

Modified: trunk/toolkits/basemap/README
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--- trunk/toolkits/basemap/README	2009-06-16 09:12:08 UTC (rev 7222)
+++ trunk/toolkits/basemap/README	2009-06-16 18:31:57 UTC (rev 7223)
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 PIL (http://pythonware.com/products/pil) is optional (only
 needed for Basemap warpimage and bluemarble methods).
 
+On linux, if your python was installed via a package management system, make
+sure the corresponding "python-dev" package is also installed.  Otherwise, you
+may not have the python header (Python.h), which is required to build python
+C extensions.
+
 **Copyright**
 
 source code from proj.4 (http://proj.maptools.org) is included in the


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