Re: failure to find python-2.6 on gentoo

Hi Justin,

> Today I rebuilt root from svn after my system upgraded to python-2.6.
> I discovered that pyroot was not built because root (in all of its
> multitude of checks) did not find
>
> /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so
> /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
>
> in its search for the python library.

I ran into the same problem myself; I think it is the result of the header that the configure script looks for not being installed in the same prefix as the library. Adding --with-python-libdir=/usr/lib to your configure options will fix your problem.

Greetz, Roel Received on Tue Aug 25 2009 - 20:58:27 CEST