On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Vo, Trinh (388C)<trinh...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Hello Python Users, > > > > I am new to Python. I have errors message when I installed Python. I > appreciate if you can help. > > > > I download Python-2.6-2. I then did the following steps: > > ./configure > > make > > > > In the second step “make”, I had the following message: > > > > > > Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: > > _bsddb _curses _curses_panel > > _hashlib _sqlite3 _ssl > > _tkinter bsddb185 bz2 > > dbm dl gdbm > > imageop readline sunaudiodev > > To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the > module's name. > > I however still saw the binary python was installed in > /usr/local/Python-2.6.2. I tested, and it till run OK. However, I am > worried if the above message can cause any problem in the future. I have > on my cluster: > > X86_64 > > GCC version 4.1.2 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42) > It's only a problem if you want to use those modules. Personally, I would rebuild it with some more of those (just install those libraries and the dev versions if red hat keeps them separate) but Python can run fine without them.
> > > Thank you, > > > > Trinh Vo > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list