Build Failure on Centos 6.5: ImportError: No module named readline

[bcomnes]

I get the following error when trying to install 2.7.6 or 3.3.3:

ImportError: No module named readline

The Python readline extension was not compiled. Missing the GNU readline lib?

I do however have the readline-devel.x86_64 and readline.x86_64 6.0 packages installed via yum. I am also able to build python from source by hand. Any ideas?

[yyuu]

Looks strange. Installing headers of GNU readline (in this case, readline-develop.x86_64) should resolve the issues like this. Please let me know further information.

1. Check if there is /usr/include/readline/rlconf.h
2. Check if the readline module has been built for "python from source by hand"
3. Please gist the output from pyenv install -v 2.7.6 2>&1 | tee build.log

[bcomnes]

It does sound odd. I'm not the system administrator for the server, which also makes troubleshooting frustrating.

1. /usr/include/readline/rlconf.h is there for sure, along with the other .h files.
2. Whats the best way to check if the readline module was built? I'm not a very confident python person. What I can tell you is that I followed this procedure and did not see any build errors:

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.3.3/Python-3.3.3.tgz
tar -zxvf Python-3.3.3.tgz
cd Python-3.3.3/
mkdir /vol/apps/user/python/python3.3.3
./configure --prefix=/vol/apps/user/python/python3.3.3
make
make install

1. Here is the gist of build.log: https://gist.github.com/bcomnes/6dd976a5724aa8bdd2f3

I'm building on an NFS mount, would that have something to do with it?

[bcomnes]

Ok, I feel stupid. I found an old .pydistutils file in my home directory mucking things up. Now the install process fails on the sqlite module, which does not appear to be installed. Feel free to close this.

[yyuu]

I'm happy if your issue has been solved. Please let me know the configuration in .pydistutils for future reference, if you can.

Also, your build procedure seems fine. You can try testing if the readline module has been built by invoking /vol/apps/user/python/python3.3.3/bin/python -c "import readline".

[bcomnes]

I had a pydistutils file that pointed to an old, nonexistent python build, and it was screwing all sorts of python utilities up:

[install]
install_scripts = ~/stow/python-stuff/bin/
install_data = ~/stow/python-stuff/share/
install_lib = ~/stow/python-stuff/lib/python2.7/site-packages/

Everything is building great now that I have sqlite-dev installed.

[yyuu]

Added a workaround for this problem in 854f6f3. Will exit with 1 if there is ~/.pydistutils.cfg.