[New-bugs-announce] [issue15366] venv assumes header files in sys._home + '/Include'
Richard Oudkerk
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jul 16 13:30:11 CEST 2012
New submission from Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com>:
For Unix I follow the practice suggested in README of running configure from a subdir of the main python directory, eg
mkdir release
cd release
../configure
make
But if I create a venv then I cannot use it to compile C extensions because the include dirs are wrong, eg
running build
running build_ext
building 'demo' extension
gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/home/user/Repos/cpython/release/Include -I/home/user/Repos/cpython/release -c demo.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-3.3/demo.o
demo.c:1:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
The problem seems to be that distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() assumes that if sys._home is set (as it is in a virtual env) then the standard header files can be found in sys._home + '/Include'.
But for my venv this is wrong, since sys._home is "/home/user/Repos/cpython/release" and "/home/user/Repos/cpython/release/Include" is empty. Instead get_python_inc() should return "/home/user/Repos/cpython/Include".
BTW, a seperate issue seems to be that ${venv}/include is not added to the list of include dirs used when compiling.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 165589
nosy: sbt, vinay.sajip
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: venv assumes header files in sys._home + '/Include'
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3
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