brown wrap wrote these words on 03/12/10 09:55 CST: > > In trying to build Python, I kept getting the following errors: > > Failed to build these modules: > _hashlib _ssl
Then something else is wrong. Paths, or something is different than what Python is expecting. Those modules build perfectly for me. > I had Openssl installed, but whenever I used any software, where Python was > called on to use md5 I'd get errors. This stopped from building several > packages that I wanted. The fix is to go into the source directory of Python > and edit Modules/Setup (or Steup.dist on a fresh build) and uncomment out a > few lines. This may be clear to a lot of people, but not clear to me: > > Socket module helper for socket(2) > _socket socketmodule.c > > # Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other > # socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable: > SSL=/usr/ssl > _ssl _ssl.c \ > -DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \ > -L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto I'm glad that worked for you; however, you are probably better off trying to figure out what the *real* problem is. Using a hack that nobody else needs to use should be telling you something. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 11:20:00 up 75 days, 16:28, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
