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Diffstat (limited to 'configure.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.in | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index 55454148..b97df6d2 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Copyright (C) 1998-2006 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 1998-2007 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License @@ -101,7 +101,14 @@ else: except distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: res = "no" else: - res = "yes" + # some RedHat packages put distutils in python, but the C headers + # are in python-devel so check for headers too. + import os.path + pdothpath = distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('CONFINCLUDEPY') + if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(pdothpath, "Python.h")): + res = "yes" + else: + res = "no" fp = open("conftest.out", "w") fp.write("%s\n" % res) fp.close() @@ -117,7 +124,8 @@ then ***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for $PYTHON ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python -***** from source. See README.LINUX for details]) +***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for +***** details]) fi AC_MSG_RESULT($havedistutils) |