ssh root.cc_int
cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
yum install python-dev
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Setting up Install Process
No package python-dev available.
Error: Nothing to do
python-devel exists... Is it this you want instead?
On 10/1/14, 11:44 AM, "Jason Swails" <jason.swails.gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 11:21 -0700, Ross Walker wrote:
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> Again I reiterate my point. Why are we requiring lots of non-default
>> packages to be installed?
>>
>> Note - a LOT of people have to build AMBER on machines they do not have
>> root for. They also have to build it on non-Linux systems - such as AIX.
>> Thus I would suggest getting a machine and doing a default install -
>>with
>> most Linux systems the packages needed for Xleap etc are there. If they
>> are not then right now they get a message asking them to specify -noX11.
>> With this setup they will then get another message telling them to
>>specify
>> -nopysander - at this point the poor user is like - WTF?? what are all
>> these things I am turning off, do I need pysander? What will it break
>>etc
>> etc etc... Bad news... Probably we should just have it automatically
>>skip
>> non-core packages if it does not find the relevant libraries.
>>
>> As you had it the configure script would fail with a FATAL error if one
>> did not have python-dev installed. This requires root access to install.
>>
>> I would suggest changing this to be non-fatal - if it does not detect
>> python-dev it just skips the building of pysander. This removes the
>>fatal
>> dependency on the external package rather than requiring the user to
>> explicitly specify -nopysander.
>
>This comes back to the question of when is it better to find out you're
>missing a dependency -- at configure time or when you decide to run it?
>We (amber devs) had this discussion several years ago about xleap and
>the X11 headers, and the people that spoke said that configure-time
>notice was better. That's why Tyler implemented that change.
>
>Keep in mind that the "standard" Linux user is more likely to be using a
>machine that has the Python headers and development libraries installed
>than they are a machine that has gfortran installed... out of the box at
>least. And python is deployed via buildbots on all kinds of OSes (AIX
>included), so portability is not an issue here.
>
>All the best,
>Jason
>
>--
>Jason M. Swails
>BioMaPS,
>Rutgers University
>Postdoctoral Researcher
>
>
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