Compiling PIL under RH6.2

[Brad Howes]

Eric Frey <frey at weasel.bme.unc.edu> writes:

> I have been trying to compile Python imaging library under RH6.2 (I was
> unable to find a rpm). Unfortunately I am not at the system right now,
> but when I do the make boot (using the appropriate makefile) I get
> an error saying that it is unable to make /usr/lib/python/lib/config/Makefile
> (or something like that). This sounds like a file which would be created
> if I had compiled python myself from the sources (which I didn't do, I 
> installed the RPMs). Is there anyone who has successfully compiled PIL
> under RH6.2? Any hints as to what to do?

Fire up gnorpm, and do a web find for 'python'. You need to install the
Python development RPM. That will install the appropriate files. I had no
problem compiling/installing PIL on RH6.2

Brad

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