[Image-SIG] Can't perform "python setup.py build" on RedHat CentOS release 5.4 Linux

[Nils de Reus]

If /usr/include/python2.4 is in your include path, yet Python.h cannot be found, then I'd be moved to believe that you are missing the python-devel package. Have you checked for that?

Kind regards,
    Nils


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From: W. Daniel Simmons [wdsimmons at hexlab.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:51 AM
To: image-sig at python.org
Subject: [Image-SIG] Can't perform "python setup.py build" on RedHat CentOS     release 5.4     Linux

Gentlemen:
We use Python and a package called ReportLab to produce pdf files. The
package requires the use of the PIL package. I've installed these
packages on many systems, and never had a problem until we moved to a
new web hosting service for ourselves. On the server with the OS noted
in the subject line I get the following errors (full error text in
attachment):

sh-3.2# python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_imaging' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC
-DHAVE_LIBZ -IlibImaging -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include
-I/usr/include/python2.4 -c _imaging.c -o
build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4/_imaging.o
_imaging.c:74:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
In file included from libImaging/Imaging.h:14,
                 from _imaging.c:76:
libImaging/ImPlatform.h:10:20: error: Python.h: No such file or
directory
libImaging/ImPlatform.h:14:2: error: #error Sorry, this library requires
support for ANSI prototypes.
libImaging/ImPlatform.h:17:2: error: #error Sorry, this library requires
ANSI header files.

...and so on

If any can tell me what I'm missing on our new server I'd be much
obliged.

Thanks,
Dan