Re: installation woes on OpenBSD

[Mats Bengtsson]

You need to install not only the python program but also the
development libraries. I'm not familiar with the OpenBSD
distribution but there may be a separate package with these
include and lib files.

   /Mats


Arvid Grøtting wrote:
> Hi, and thanks for wonderful software.
>
> I'm trying to compile and install Lilypond 1.6.9 on OpenBSD 3.3, but I
> can't seem to get past the ./configure stage.  I get the following
> error:
>
> ERROR: Please install required programs:  python.h (python-devel, python-dev or 
> libpython-dev package)
>
> Of course, I do have Python installed, recently built from source
> using the ports system, but there is no python.h to be found anywhere
> on my system.  Here's what python calls itself:
>
> Python 2.2.1 (#1, May 27 2003, 11:21:33) 
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010125 (prerelease, propolice)] on openbsd3
>
> So, where do I go from here?  Do I need to find an older python?  A
> different python?  A newer (development, rather than stable) Lilypond?
> Or should I write a bogus python.h that ./configure can find?


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