Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] installing from setup.py

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@ro...>]

Ridwan Sami wrote:

>on mandrakelinux 10.1, after meeting dependencies and symlinking
>/usr/X11 to /usr/X11R6, i did
>
>$ python setup.py install
>
>and got
>
>Togl to be built: Togl-1.6
>running install
>error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
>/usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
>
>when i looked in /usr/lib/python2.3/, the config folder didn't exist.
>python was installed with mandrakelinux 10.1. should it be there? how
>do i fix this?
>  
>
There's likely a 'python-dev' or 'python-devel' package for your
system.  Some systems leave out the critical files needed for building
Python extensions.  Weird idea IMO.

HTH,
Mike

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