When trying to configure installation of the latest LibreDWG (cloned from GitHub), I get a Python linking error on Linux distributions (tried Manjaro Linux 64x core 4.9.74-2 <- Arch Linux and Kali Linux 64x 2017.1 <- Debian).
When running ./configure to generate the make files, the process stops with this message:
checking python extra libraries... -lpthread -ldl -lutil
checking python extra linking flags... -Xlinker -export-dynamic
checking consistency of all components of python development environment... no
configure: error: in `/root/libredwg':
configure: error:
Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
============================================================================
ERROR!
You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
for your distribution. The exact name of this package varies among them.
============================================================================
See `config.log' for more details
I've tried different Python paths (as suggested). My Python 2.7 is located in /usr/bin/python, the lib dir in /lib/python2.7/, but the error persists.
Please help!