python setup.py problem [solved]

[Alexander Belchenko]

Matthieu Moy пишет:
> "Wichmann, Mats D" <mats.d.wichmann at intel.com> writes:
> 
>> That's actually a long-standing "bug" (quoted because SuSE
>> don't seem to agree it's a bug), that you need the -dev
>> package to perform the basic Python functionality of
>> installing something.... 
> 
> That's obviously not a bug. Debian, and most likely other distribution
> do the same.
> 
> The reason why you have foo and foo-dev (whatever foo is) is that
> there are things that you don't need to run a program, and that are
> only needed to compile them.

IMO, for Python applications term 'compile' in most situations (library
without C-extensions) is not related at all.

--
Alexander