gcc error when I'm trying to install readline-6.2

Question

Could anyone kindly help me out what's wrong with the gcc when I am trying to install readline module for my newly installed python2.7 in the CentOS server?

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC     -DHAVE_RL_CALLBACK -DHAVE_RL_CATCH_SIGNAL -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_APPEND_CHARACTER -    DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_DISPLAY_MATCHES_HOOK -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_MATCHES -    DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_SUPPRESS_APPEND -DHAVE_RL_PRE_INPUT_HOOK -I. -I/usr/local/include/python2.7 -c     Modules/2.x/readline.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Modules/2.x/readline.o -Wno-strict-prototypes
gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Modules/2.x/readline.o readline/libreadline.a     readline/libhistory.a -lncurses -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/readline.so
gcc: readline/libreadline.a: No such file or directory
gcc: readline/libhistory.a: No such file or directory
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Many Thanks!

Answer 1

readline is bundled with the Python module and it attempts to build it for you, but you'll see this error display if your system was unable to complete the build. In my case, patch was missing from the system. yum install patch solved it for me.