[libhid-discuss] Installation problems with libhid-0.2.16

[Charles Lepple]

On May 3, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> On 5/3/07, Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc> wrote:
>> It is most likely called something like python-dev, and should be
>> available from the same YUM repository where you downloaded Python.
>
> It is called python-devel for CentOS 5, maybe it is the same for
> FC5 and FC6.

You're right - the convention for development headers is "-devel" in  
many RPM-based systems.

>> > Is Python Development Package essential? Can we not ignore it while
>> > installing libhid through some configuration parameters.
>>
>> Yes, but before you reconfigure it, please gzip the copy of
>> config.log and email it to me off-list so that I can see how to turn
>> that error into a warning.
>>
>> Afterwards, you can reconfigure with "--disable-swig".
>>
>
> I tried to build libhid-0.2.16 and the SVN version under CentOS 5  
> and both
> failed when swig is enabled.

Again, I would need to see the output of config.log - there is not  
enough information in that error message to diagnose the problem.

-- 
Charles Lepple