Build failure on vanilla Ubuntu 8.10 about distcc HOT 14 CLOSED

Have you tried

  ./configure --disable-Werror
  make

?

Just did.  error -> warnings.  Has a problem finding Python.h

if test -z "/usr/bin/python2.5"; then   \
      echo "Not building include-server: No suitable python found"; \
    else                        \
      mkdir -p "./_include_server" &&      \
      DISTCC_VERSION="3.1"          \
      SRCDIR="."                            \
      CFLAGS="-g -O2 -MD -W -Wall -Wimplicit -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wmissing-declarations -Wuninitialized -pthread
-Wno-missing-prototypes -Wno-missing-declarations -Wno-write-strings
-Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE"           \
      CPPFLAGS="-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_GNU_SOURCE -DSYSCONFDIR="\"/usr/local/etc\""
-DPKGDATADIR="\"/usr/local/share/distcc\"" -Isrc -I"./src" -I"./lzo" 
-I"./popt""    
                   \
      /usr/bin/python2.5 "./include_server/setup.py" \
          build                     \
            --build-base="./_include_server"  \
            --build-temp="./_include_server"; \
    fi
setup.py: PYTHON_CFLAGS must be defined.
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'include_server.distcc_pump_c_extensions' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes
-g -O2 -MD -W -Wall -Wimplicit -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align 
-Wwrite-strings
-Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wmissing-declarations -Wuninitialized -pthread -Wno-missing-prototypes
-Wno-missing-declarations -Wno-write-strings -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-D_GNU_SOURCE -DSYSCONFDIR=/usr/local/etc -DPKGDATADIR=/usr/local/share/distcc 
-Isrc
-I./src -I./lzo -I./popt -fPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -Isrc -I./src -I./lzo -I./popt
-I/usr/include/python2.5 -c
/home/rranslam/wrs/tools/distcc-3.1/include_server/c_extensions/distcc_pump_c_ex
tensions_module.c
-o
./_include_server/home/rranslam/wrs/tools/distcc-3.1/include_server/c_extensions
/distcc_pump_c_extensions_module.o
/home/rranslam/wrs/tools/distcc-3.1/include_server/c_extensions/distcc_pump_c_ex
tensions_module.c:24:20:
error: Python.h: No such file or directory
/home/rranslam/wrs/tools/distcc-3.1/

Looks like there is a fix for "PYTHON_CFLAGS must be defined."  I can pull from 
the
head and give it a spin

You can just ignore the message about PYTHON_CFLAGS.  It's a spurious message.  
The
fix just makes the message go away.

Python.h is supposed to be part of your Python installation.
You need to have the right packages installed in order to build distcc from 
source.
Try "apt-get install python2.4-dev"?

Let us know if that solves the problem.

Cheers,
  Fergus.

darn though i had python-dev installed... that was it. Thanks

to recap, for ubuntu-8.10 do

  sudo apt-get install python2.5-dev
  tar xjvf distcc-3.1.tar.bz2
  cd distcc-3.1
  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure --disable-Werror && make && sudo make install

  ready to go

I'll update the installation instructions.
http://code.google.com/p/distcc/source/detail?r=632#

Documentation updated in revision 634.

If python is truly optional, as the install docs indicate, then your solution 
really
doesn't fix the problem.  The configure script should detect that the python dev
tools (like Python.h) are missing, print a big warning message, and then 
proceed as
if python were completely missing.

I'm having the same problem described, but I don't have root access, nor do I 
want to
try to install the python dev tools by hand in my home dir just so I can compile
this.  Is there some way to make the configure script think that python isn't 
installed?

In general it's a good idea to have Python, including the Python dev tools; you 
need
that for "pump" mode, which has much better performance in a lot of cases.

But, if you're really keen on not using Python...
You might be able to get configure to not detect Python by setting PATH to 
something
that doesn't contain "python*", e.g.

   mkdir $HOME/usr_bin
   ln -s /usr/bin/* $HOME/usr_bin
   rm -f ~/usr_bin/python*
   PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed "s@/usr/bin@$HOME/usr_bin)

Alternatively, please feel free to make a patch to configure.ac to add a
--without_python option, and send it to the distcc-patches list.

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I think it's common to have python installed, while without python-dev. 
Thus,what will distcc be if python-dev is missing while python existing? 
It involves the dependency of python and python-dev from distcc.

I think the INSTALL file explains the dependencies on other packages.

Thanks. I forget to check that. : - )