psutil

[Larry Martell]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 8:30 PM, Matt Wheeler <m at funkyhat.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, 00:49 Larry Martell, <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:36 PM, José María Mateos <chema at rinzewind.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 07:29:50PM -0500, Larry Martell wrote:
>> >> Trying to install psutil (with pip install psutil) on Red Hat EL 7.
>> >> It's failing with:
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>> >> Python.h: No such file or directory
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>> > Two questions come to my mind:
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>> > - Does it work if you try to install some other package?
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>> Yes, I have installed other packages (e.g. numpy)
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> Did that install definitely involve a build from source?
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>> > - Is `pip` by any change trying to install a Python 3 package, but you
>> >   only have the libraries for Python 2 installed?
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>> No, here is the gcc command line that failed:
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>>     gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
>> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
>> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic
>> -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
>> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
>> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic
>> -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1
>> -DPSUTIL_VERSION=543 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1
>> -I/opt/rh/python27/root/usr/include/python2.7 -c
>> psutil/_psutil_common.c -o
>> build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_common.o
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> Based on the include path you have here this looks like you have a non
> standard python package for EL7 (in addition to the system one, or you'd be
> having a worse day), which is probably the root of your problem.
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> Are you using python packages from scl perhaps?
> If so you probably need to install python27-python-devel (found at
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/rh/python27/)

Thanks to all who replied. The machine got rebooted (for an unrelated
issue) and when it came back up the install worked fine.