Build Python 2.7.5 - Modules missing

[rusi]

On Jun 10, 10:51 pm, Walter Hurry <walterhu... at lavabit.com> wrote:
> On building Python 2.7.5 I got the following message:
>
> Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules
>  were not found:
> dl                 imageop            linuxaudiodev
> spwd               sunaudiodev
> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules()
>  for the module's name.
>
> It carried on with the installation OK, but I don't understand the last
> sentence in the message. How can I find out exactly what modules are
> missing, and what I need to do to make sure they are built next time?

On a debian box (which includes ubuntu etc), doing:
# aptitude build-dep python
will get you all the packages you need to build python. You can use
apt-get instead of aptitude.