Trying to compile 1.5.63 under Debian

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I have tried to compile 1.5.63 under Debian Woody without success.
> ./configure complains that it can't find python.h and suggests that
> python-devel, or python-dev or libpython-dev should be installed.
> python-dev is installed and I have Python.h sitting in
> /usr/include/python2.1/      (it belongs to python2.1-dev which
> was installed since it is required by python-dev).
> Should I create a simlink to Python.h named python.h somewhere?
> 
> ./configure also warns not to use guile ./configure --with-threads.
> Is guile ./configured --without-threads available as a binary package
> or should I compile it myself?

the thread problem is fixed  in 1.5.66. Don't know about the python
one, though. Maybe you forgot to remove config.cache after installing python? 

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