pyenv Common build problems error

Requirements:

• Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install -y make build-essential libssl1.0-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev \
 libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev \
 xz-utils tk-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev

• Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:

sudo dnf install zlib-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel readline-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl-devel xz xz-devel

Alternative of openssl-devel:

sudo dnf install compat-openssl10-devel --allowerasing

• openSUSE

zypper in zlib-devel bzip2 libbz2-devel readline-devel sqlite3 sqlite3-devel libopenssl-devel xz xz-devel

• macOS:

brew install readline xz

NOTE: libssl-dev is required when compiling Python, installing libssl-dev will actually install zlib1g-dev, which leads to uninstall and re-install Python versions (installed before installing libssl-dev). On Redhat and derivatives the package is named openssl-devel.

Removing a python version

rm -rf ~/.pyenv/versions/2.7.5

Installing a 32 bit python on 64 bit Mac OS X (this will notwork on Linux)

CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-arch=i386" CFLAGS="-arch i386" LDFLAGS="-arch i386" python-build options

Installing a system-wide Python

If you want to install a Python interpreter that's available to all users and system scripts (no pyenv), use /usr/local/ as the install path. For example:

sudo python-build 3.3.2 /usr/local/

Make your pythons a little faster

You can set your CFLAGS to accepted safe values to help get a little more speed.

CFLAGS='-O2'

Build failed - bad interpreter: Permission denied

If you encounter this error while installing python and your server is a VPS, the /tmp directory where python-build download and compile the packages is probably mounted as noexec. You can check with your hosting provider if whether they provide a way to bypass this protection.

If the answer is no, just set the $TMPDIR environment variable to wherever you have a write + execution rights. For example:

export TMPDIR="$HOME/src"

Please note you'll have to do it every time you'll want to install a new version of python unless you write this command in your ~/.bashrc.

Build failed

If you've got something like that:

$ pyenv install 2.7.5
Downloading http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz...
Installing yaml-0.1.4...

BUILD FAILED

Please, be sure to have "make" installed ($ sudo apt-get install make). On Ubuntu Server, by default, it doesn't.

Build failed: "ERROR: The Python zlib extension was not compiled. Missing the zlib?"

Installing Python-2.7.7...

ERROR: The Python zlib extension was not compiled. Missing the zlib?

Please consult to the Wiki page to fix the problem.
https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems

BUILD FAILED

• On Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 and 10.13 you may need to set the CFLAGS environment variable when installing a new version in order for configure to find the zlib headers (XCode command line tools must be installed first):

CFLAGS="-I$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)/usr/include" pyenv install -v 2.7.7

• Alternatively, try reinstalling XCode command line tools for your OS (especially if you just upgraded your OS)

xcode-select --install

If you experience both issues with openssl and zlib, you can specify both search paths as a compiler flag:

CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include -I$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)/usr/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib"

ERROR: The Python ssl extension was not compiled. Missing the OpenSSL lib?

• If you have homebrew openssl and pyenv installed, you may need to tell the compiler where the openssl package is located:

CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" \
pyenv install -v 3.4.3

or (checked on RHEL6):

CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/openssl \
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64 \
pyenv install -v 3.4.3

or (checked on Arch Linux):

LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/openssl-1.0" \
CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/openssl-1.0" \
pyenv install -v 3.4.3

• Alternatively, if you installed openssl with macports, use the following paths:

CFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include/" \
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib/" \
pyenv install -v 3.4.3

• On FreeBSD 10-RELEASE and 11-CURRENT, you may need to recompile security/openssl without SSLv2 support. (See #464).

• On Debian stretch (and Ubuntu bionic), libssl-dev is OpenSSL 1.1.x, but support for that was only added in Python 2.7.13, 3.5.3 and 3.6.0. To install earlier versions, you need to replace libssl-dev with libssl1.0-dev. This is being tracked in https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/945.

python-build: definition not found

To update your python-build definitions:

If you have python-build installed as an pyenv plugin:

$ cd ~/.pyenv/plugins/python-build && git pull