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Failed to compile GDB 7.2 with python support
- From: Michel METZGER <michel dot metzger at st dot com>
- To: "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:30:00 +0200
- Subject: Failed to compile GDB 7.2 with python support
Hi all,
I tried to compile GDB 7.2 with python support (2.6.6) under Linux and it fails during the configure phase.
Python was compile like with:
> ./configure --prefix=/tmp/python-2.6.6-install --enable-shared make
> make install
And GDB with
> ./configure --with-python=/tmp/python-2.6.6-install
> --prefix=/tmp/gdb-7.2-install make
It fails during the execution of gdb/configure with the following message:
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[...]
checking whether to use python... /tmp/python-2.6.6-install/ checking for python2.6... no
configure: error: no usable python found at /tmp/python-2.6.6-install/
make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
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The gdb/config.log tells me that configure failed to compile a test program to set up python.
From what I understand, the faulty compilation command line is:
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[...]
configure:10682: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/tmp/python-2.6.6-install/include -I/tmp/python-2.6.6-install/include conftest.c -lncurses -lz -lm -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lpython2.6 >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.6
[...]
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Apparently the -L/tmp/Python-2.6.6-install/lib is missing.
What am I doing wrong?
Best regards,
Michel Metzger.