[python-committers] Failed to build select

Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdonek at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 03:25:15 EDT 2016
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 12:17:21AM -0400, Ned Deily wrote:
>> Also, try without setting PYTHONHOME.  I'm not sure what you're trying to do by setting that but you shouldn't need to.
>
> I didn't think I needed to either, but when I try without it, I get:
>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]

FWIW, I would be interested in learning more about the above warning
(its significance, how it can be addressed, whether it can be ignored,
etc). I also get this message when installing 3.5.2 from source on
Ubuntu 14.04.

--Chris


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