Thanks Tiago, that was indeed the issue.
On Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:22:50 AM UTC, Tiago Peixoto wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Whenever reporting problems with building the library, please never
> forget to provide some basic information such as which operating system
> you are using, what compiler version, and so on. Also please attach a
> the _complete_ output of the configure script, together with the file
> config.log which is generated.
>
> As the error message below says, the problem occurs because the script
> cannot link with the python library. The necessary information required
> to understand why the problem happens is included in the config.log
> file. But since you seem to have compiled and installed python yourself,
> a common source of problems is to forget to compile the python shared
> library, which is done by passing "--enable-shared" to the configure
> script when compiling python. Please make sure you have done so...
>
> Cheers,
> Tiago
>
> On 12/19/2013 02:19 PM, Gerry Steele wrote:
> > Thought it might be useful to include this output:
> >
> > ================
> > Detecting python
> > ================
> > checking whether /home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/bin/python version
> is >= 2.6... yes
> > checking for /home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/bin/python version...
> 2.7
> > checking for /home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/bin/python platform...
> linux2
> > checking for /home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/bin/python script
> directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> > checking for /home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/bin/python extension
> module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> > checking for python2.7... /home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/bin/python
> > checking for a version of Python >= '2.1.0'... yes
> > checking for a version of Python == '2.7.6'... yes
> > checking for the distutils Python package... yes
> > checking for Python include path...
> -I/home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/include/python2.7
> > checking for Python library path...
> -L/home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/lib/python2.7/config -lpython2.7
> > checking for Python site-packages path...
> /home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> > checking python extra libraries... -lpthread -ldl -lutil
> > checking python extra linking flags... -Xlinker -export-dynamic
> > checking consistency of all components of python development
> environment... no
> > configure: error: in `/home/gs/graph-tool-2.2.27':
> > configure: error:
> > Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library
> has been
> > installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to
> configure,
> > via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
> > Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
> >
> ============================================================================
>
> > ERROR!
> > You probably have to install the development version of the Python
> package
> > for your distribution. The exact name of this package varies among
> them.
> >
> ============================================================================
>
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:44:37 PM UTC, Gerry Steele wrote:
> >
> > I've searched the forum repeatedly and not found anything helpful
> despite this issue being posted 5 or 6 times sadly.
> >
> > I'm working in an environment where I need to build all dependencies
> from scratch. I've failed at the first hurdle with:
> >
> > > Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python
> library has been installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass
> it to configure via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
> >
> > Note I have built the python install i need to use myself. So when i
> try:
> >
> > $ ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/gt-inst
> LDFLAGS="-L/home/gs/Python-2.7.6/python-2.7.6/lib/python2.7/lib"
> >
> > Or similar i just get the same error.
> >
> > What is different about the python install graph-tool configure
> expects?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gerry
> >
> >
> >
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