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Add a note about Python development package.
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Added a note about installing the Python dev package on Linux as suggested by
Lunpa.

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Paul Davis committed Apr 3, 2009
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Requirements
============

The nspr (Netscapre Portable Runtime) library is required for building the
Spidermonkey sources. You should be able to grab it from your package manager
of choice with something like the following:
Python Development Files
------------------------

Mac OS X:

If you installed Python via port then the headers should already be installed.
I have not heard reports of problems from people using the bundled
interpreters.

Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install pythonX.X-dev

Where X.X is the version of Python you are using. I have not tested
python-spidermonkey on Py3K so it may be horribly broken there.

Netscape Portable Runtime (nspr)
--------------------------------

The nspr library is required for building the Spidermonkey sources. You should
be able to grab it from your package manager of choice with something like the
following:

Mac OS X:

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