Bug 256231

Summary:	python: could not find Python headers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tobias Mayer <mayer.tobias>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tobias Mayer 2009-01-24 19:37:33 UTC

Any ebuild compiling against Python fail during ./configure with:

...
configure: error: could not find Python headers

after having upgraded from Python-2.4 to -2.5

Comment 1 Tobias Mayer 2009-01-24 19:42:46 UTC

the problem seems to be, that python-config still points to /usr/bin/python-config-2.4, so redirecting the symlink to /usr/bin/python2.5-config solves this issue.
However shouldn't the configure script work around those things?
And I think either the python ebuild or python-updater should take care of this.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-27 16:10:29 UTC

Please run python-updater and try again (the elog info should have advised you to do so). If that doesn't solve the problem, please post your `emerge --info' and reopen this bug report.