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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: configure: error: no usable python found
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:06:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <2bf229d31003030453k302064caq29a75976637203ba@mail.gmail.com> 	(Chris Sutcliffe's message of "Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:53:55 -0500")
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>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com> writes:

Chris> I configured gdb with 'configure --with-python=/python'.
Chris> Looking at the config.log file I see:

Chris> | #include "python2.6/Python.h"
Chris> | int
Chris> | main ()
Chris> | {
Chris> | Py_Initialize ();
Chris> |   ;
Chris> |   return 0;
Chris> | }

Could you also paste the command line?

Chris> Which is why it's failing, given that Python.h is in /python/include/.
Chris>  Is there a way to override where configure is looking for Python.h?

--with-python supposedly changes the includes:

  case "${with_python}" in
[...]
  /*)
    python_includes="-I${with_python}/include"
    python_libs="-L${with_python}/lib"
    ;;
[...]
  CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS ${python_includes}"

Tom