PythonMagick fails to configure

[treaves]

The latest download of PythonMagick fails to configure with:
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 3.1... none
configure: error: no suitable Python interpreter found

Does it really require a version of Python at least 3.1?

[suinonatante]

same problem here on a machine with debian testing, i can't install last version of pythonmagick.

[DrLou]

Seeing the same issue here - the message:

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checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 3.1... none

We do have installs of Python 2.6 and 3.2 (though would prefer to stick with 2.6 for the moment). We're experimenting with various incantations of The PYTHON env variable on the configure line.

Am also beginning to look into the configure script itself, but would rather not fiddle with someone else's work - and I'd probably do more damage than good! It does look like the script is designed to accommodate both major versions of Python, but I'm not the guy to fix it...

Can someone help, please? Lou

[magick]

We tried PythonMagick with both Python 2.6 (CentOS) and 2.7 (Fedora) and it compiled and installed without complaint. We're not sure why its failing for you.

[aklhfex]

Have you tried the patches carried by Gentoo:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewv ... iew=markup
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewv ... iew=markup

[aklhfex]

Looks like there are a couple of other fixes used too:

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sed -e "s/AM_PATH_PYTHON(3.1)/AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.6)/" -i configure.ac
sed -e "s/import _PythonMagick/from . import _PythonMagick/" -i PythonMagick/__init__.py