Re: CVS configure failure

Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I get this failure on current CVS running configure --with-python:
> >
> > checking for python... /usr/local/bin/python
> > checking for Python distutils module... no
> > configure: error: distutils module not found
> > gmake: *** [config.status] Error 1
> >
> > I have python 1.5(1.5.2?).
>
> This is the check that I suggest to add recently :-(
> See the thread "x86_64 configure problem" on hackers
>
> You need to install the distutils, and how I wrote in that thread, it's
> not clear that that module is installed by default when you install
> python.

So distutils is now required to build python? If that is intended, I
will just skip building python. I didn't realize we had new
requirements for python, but that is fine.

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