[Freeswitch-users] configure: error: python2.7 is unusable

[Steven Ayre]

Are you installing python-dev or just python? python-dev is required for
embedding it in mod_python.


On 22 August 2014 16:39, Devin Fee <devin.fee at gmail.com> wrote:

> When configuring the FreeSWITCH package, I get the following error and
> then the process halts:
>
> ./configure --enable-core-pgsql-support
> --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.7
>
>  …
> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> checking python version... 2.7.5+
> checking for python distutils... yes
> checking location of site-packages... /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
>  checking python libdir... /usr/lib
> checking for main in -lpython2.7… no
> configure: error: python2.7 is unusable
>
>
> Looking at the config.log file, this seemed to be most relevant (and it
> was the same in every failure, regardless of platform or version).
>
> ...
> | #define HAVE_LIBSSL 1
> | #define HAVE_OPENSSL 1
> | #define HAVE_TLS 1
> | #define HAVE_OPENSSL_DTLS_SRTP 1
> | #define HAVE_OPENSSL_DTLS 1
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> |
> |
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> | return main ();
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:23841: result: no
> configure:23855: error: python2.7 is unusable
>
>
>
> I had this problem across two platforms: Ubuntu as a guest VM on my
> computer and a fresh CentOS EC2 instance, across two versions (git checkout
> of v1.2 and v1.4), and across three versions of Python. Here were my
> efforts:
>
> Ubuntu 14.04
> ------------------
> [x] FS v1.2 - Python 2.7.5 [stock]
> [x] FS v1.4 - Python 2.7.5 [stock]
> [x] FS v1.4 -Python 3.3.2 [installed from source]
>
> CentOS 6.5
> ----------------
> [x] FS v1.4 - Python 2.6.6 [stock]
> [+] FS v1.4 - Python 2.7.6 [installed from source]
> [x] FS v1.4 - Python 3.3.3 [installed from source]
>
> For five out of my six configurations attempts (five permutations listed
> above failed [x], one succeed [√]). Why was pythonX.Y unusable? What
> versions of Python are supported?
>
> I installed Python from source on CentOS, using the instructions posted by
> Digital Ocean, here:
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-python-2-7-6-and-3-3-3-on-centos-6-4
> The only change I made was to add the compilation flag “—enable-shared”
> during configure of the Python which led to a successful installation. That
> however, was almost certainly a different bug.
>
> Thanks,
> Devin
>
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