The Sunjay Times

If you’re seeing an error like this when trying to compile mod_wsgi, it’s likely that you don’t have the Python development package installed. Solution: apt-get install python-dev

Turns out, a lot of things can go wrong when you try to compile mod_wsgi, and I spent a good chunk of time before finding it out here. I hope that by posting this here, I would save others the headache. The last few lines of the error was quite misleading, imho. But like they all say, in hindsight, everything’s 20/20

root@jaysern:/usr/local/mod_wsgi-2.5# make > error
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/usr/local/apache2/build/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -pthread -I/usr/local/apache2/include -I/usr/local/apache2/include -I/usr/local/apache2/include -I/usr/include/python2.6 -DNDEBUG -c -o mod_wsgi.lo mod_wsgi.c && touch mod_wsgi.slo
mod_wsgi.c:113:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
mod_wsgi.c:114:21: error: compile.h: No such file or directory
mod_wsgi.c:115:18: error: node.h: No such file or directory

*** snip ***

mod_wsgi.c:11684: error: expected expression before ')' token
mod_wsgi.c:11691: error: expected ';' before 'ap_log_rerror'
mod_wsgi.c:11696: error: expected ';' before '}' token
mod_wsgi.c:11710: error: expected expression before 'module'
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
.
make: *** [mod_wsgi.la] Error 1
root@jaysern:/usr/local/mod_wsgi-2.5#


Tags: coding, debug, mod_wsgi, python

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