Problems installing PIL on linux

[Paul Winkler]

Hi,

I'm trying to install PIL on a RedHat 6.1 system.

I've downloaded the Imaging-1.1.tar.gz from the PIL website.
Following the instructions in the README, I get as far as step 8,
the actual build. It looks like step 7 (make -f Makefile.pre.in
boot) is finishing OK, but the created makefile does not work. I get
this:

# make
make: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/lib/python at VERSION@/config/Makefile', needed by `sedscript'. 
Stop.

I found a couple of messages on dejanews referencing similar
problems, but I didn't see any solutions posted. I browsed the
imaging sig archives and couldn't find anything relevant.

Details: let's go through the process...

Step 1: jpeg and png support ... I have RedHat 6.1 so I assume this
is OK.
Let's see what I've got:

# rpm -q libjpeg libpng zlib
libjpeg-6b-9
libpng-1.0.3-4
zlib-1.1.3-5
# rpm -q libpng-devel libjpeg-devel zlib-devel
libpng-devel-1.0.3-4
libjpeg-devel-6b-9
zlib-devel-1.1.3-5

Looks good to me.

Step 2: make sure build packages are there...
# rpm -q python python-devel
python-1.5.2-13
python-devel-1.5.2-13

Looks good.

Step 3: Unpack the PIL distribution ... no problem

Step 4: . Now build the Imaging core library (libImaging.a):
$ cd Imaging-1.1/libImaging
$ ./configure
$ make

This all goes fine.

Step 5. To check that this library works as it should, type:
$ make check

OK, I get a nice pretty little picture.

Step 6. Edit Setup if necessary to find jpeg and zlib libraries...
I don't think I need to do this.

Step 7. Make a makefile. This seems to go OK... long output listing
follows...
and yes, I end up with a Makefile.

[root at slink Imaging-1.1]# make -f Makefile.pre.in boot
rm -f *.o *~
rm -f *.a tags TAGS config.c Makefile.pre python sedscript
rm -f *.so *.sl so_locations
VERSION=`python -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]"`; \
installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`; \
exec_installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`; \
make -f ./Makefile.pre.in VPATH=. srcdir=. \
        VERSION=$VERSION \
        installdir=$installdir \
        exec_installdir=$exec_installdir \
        Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/lib/python/Imaging-1.1'
sed -n \
 -e '1s/.*/1i\\/p' \
 -e '2s%.*%# Generated automatically from Makefile.pre.in by
sedscript.%p' \
 -e '/^VERSION=/s/^VERSION=[    ]*\(.*\)/s%@VERSION[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^CC=/s/^CC=[      ]*\(.*\)/s%@CC[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^CCC=/s/^CCC=[    ]*\(.*\)/s%#@SET_CCC[@]%CCC=\1%/p' \
 -e '/^LINKCC=/s/^LINKCC=[      ]*\(.*\)/s%@LINKCC[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^OPT=/s/^OPT=[    ]*\(.*\)/s%@OPT[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^LDFLAGS=/s/^LDFLAGS=[    ]*\(.*\)/s%@LDFLAGS[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^DEFS=/s/^DEFS=[  ]*\(.*\)/s%@DEFS[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^LIBS=/s/^LIBS=[  ]*\(.*\)/s%@LIBS[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^LIBM=/s/^LIBM=[  ]*\(.*\)/s%@LIBM[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^LIBC=/s/^LIBC=[  ]*\(.*\)/s%@LIBC[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^RANLIB=/s/^RANLIB=[      ]*\(.*\)/s%@RANLIB[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^MACHDEP=/s/^MACHDEP=[    ]*\(.*\)/s%@MACHDEP[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^SO=/s/^SO=[      ]*\(.*\)/s%@SO[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^LDSHARED=/s/^LDSHARED=[  ]*\(.*\)/s%@LDSHARED[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^CCSHARED=/s/^CCSHARED=[  ]*\(.*\)/s%@CCSHARED[@]%\1%/p' \
 -e '/^LINKFORSHARED=/s/^LINKFORSHARED=[       
]*\(.*\)/s%@LINKFORSHARED[@]%\1%                                               
/p' \
 -e '/^prefix=/s/^prefix=\(.*\)/s%^prefix=.*%prefix=\1%/p' \
 -e
'/^exec_prefix=/s/^exec_prefix=\(.*\)/s%^exec_prefix=.*%exec_prefix=\1%/p'
\
 /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile >sedscript
echo "/^#@SET_CCC@/d" >>sedscript
echo "/^installdir=/s%=.*%=     /usr%" >>sedscript
echo "/^exec_installdir=/s%=.*%=/usr%" >>sedscript
echo "/^srcdir=/s%=.*%=         .%" >>sedscript
echo "/^VPATH=/s%=.*%=          .%" >>sedscript
echo "/^LINKPATH=/s%=.*%=       %" >>sedscript
echo "/^BASELIB=/s%=.*%=        %" >>sedscript
echo "/^BASESETUP=/s%=.*%=      %" >>sedscript
sed -f sedscript ./Makefile.pre.in >Makefile.pre
/usr/lib/python1.5/config/makesetup \
         -m Makefile.pre -c /usr/lib/python1.5/config/config.c.in
Setup -n  /usr                                               
/lib/python1.5/config/Setup
make -f Makefile do-it-again
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/lib/python/Imaging-1.1'
/usr/lib/python1.5/config/makesetup \
         -m Makefile.pre -c /usr/lib/python1.5/config/config.c.in
Setup -n  /usr                                               
/lib/python1.5/config/Setup
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/lib/python/Imaging-1.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/lib/python/Imaging-1.1'
[root at slink Imaging-1.1]#


OK, but now we come to the problem.
Step 8. To build a dynamically loaded module, just type "make":

make: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/lib/python at VERSION@/config/Makefile', needed by `sedscript'. 
Stop.

OK, so something's really wrong with my Makefile, even though none
of the previous steps complained. I don't think this section is
supposed to look like this:
# === Variables from configure (through sedscript) ===

VERSION=        @VERSION@
CC=             @CC@
LINKCC=         @LINKCC@
SGI_ABI=        @SGI_ABI@
OPT=            @OPT@
LDFLAGS=        @LDFLAGS@
DEFS=           @DEFS@
LIBS=           @LIBS@
LIBM=           @LIBM@
LIBC=           @LIBC@
RANLIB=         @RANLIB@
MACHDEP=        @MACHDEP@
SO=             @SO@
LDSHARED=       @LDSHARED@
CCSHARED=       @CCSHARED@
LINKFORSHARED=  @LINKFORSHARED@


Any ideas?



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