Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu

[cool-RR]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Python 3.4b3 on Ubuntu. Since compilation seems to be the only way, I'm trying that.

I downloaded the source, I changed Setup.dist to have this:

SSL=/usr
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto

I installed openssl and various sqlite packages beforehand.

But when I do this:

./configure --prefix=/opt/python3.4 && make && make install

I get, after a huge wall of text, this:

./Modules/_ssl.c:57:25: fatal error: openssl/rsa.h: No such file or directory
#include "openssl/rsa.h"
^
compilation terminated.

What do I do to solve this?


Thanks,
Ram.

 

[Ervin Hegedüs]

Hello,

Hi,

I'm trying to install Python 3.4b3 on Ubuntu. Since compilation seems to be the only way, I'm trying that.

I downloaded the source, I changed Setup.dist to have this:

SSL=/usr
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
[...]

./Modules/_ssl.c:57:25: fatal error: openssl/rsa.h: No such file or directory
#include "openssl/rsa.h"
^
compilation terminated.

What do I do to solve this?

try this:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev


cheers,


a.

 

[Ram Rachum]

Worked! Thanks Ervin!

Hello,

Hi,

I'm trying to install Python 3.4b3 on Ubuntu. Since compilation seems to

be the only way, I'm trying that.

I downloaded the source, I changed Setup.dist to have this:

SSL=/usr
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
[...]

./Modules/_ssl.c:57:25: fatal error: openssl/rsa.h: No such file or directory
#include "openssl/rsa.h"
^
compilation terminated.

What do I do to solve this?

try this:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev


cheers,


a.

 

[Rustom Mody]

Worked! Thanks Ervin!

In general its a good idea to *look at* what you get with

apt-get build-dep python3

You need not go ahead with installing what it says it will install
-- tends to pull in a lot of useless stuff -- but you may also see names
that are clearly needed

 

[Chris Angelico]

I think you're thinking of 3.2 -> 3.3. 3.3 added the lzma module,
which requires lzma-dev. I think 3.4 has the same requirements as
3.3.

Ah, that would be it, thanks. I just remembered I'd recently used
build-dep across versions and had to get something involving data
compression. Went digging for stuff starting with 'z', but missed this
because, well, it doesn't start with 'z' Thanks.

ChrisA

 

[Rustom Mody]

Ah, that would be it, thanks. I just remembered I'd recently used
build-dep across versions and had to get something involving data
compression. Went digging for stuff starting with 'z', but missed this
because, well, it doesn't start with 'z' Thanks.

ChrisA

Just curious: How do you go "digging for stuff starting with 'z'" ?

OR: How do you grep inside apt?

I know "dpkg -S pattern"

It helps to connect pattern with package
But no good if pattern is common -- Other day I was struggling with

dpkg -S which

 

[Chris Angelico]

Just curious: How do you go "digging for stuff starting with 'z'" ?

OR: How do you grep inside apt?

I know "dpkg -S pattern"

It helps to connect pattern with package
But no good if pattern is common -- Other day I was struggling with

dpkg -S which

dpkg --get-selections

will show all installed packages, in alphabetical order. Probably not useful.

dpkg --get-selections|grep -- '-dev'

will show all -dev packages, which IS useful. Except on a system that
I run, in which case you still need to eyeball roughly two hundred
installed packages Hence my failure to find the one I wanted.

ChrisA