Question

I want to build mod_wsgi against a Python which I have built myself from source code in Ubuntu. (You can see specifically how I built it in How would I build python myself from source code on Ubuntu?)

I tried running this from within the mod_wsgi-3.3 directory:

$ sudo ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
  --with-python=/usr/local/share/man/man1/python2.7.1

which was probably pretty naive since I know that python2.7.1 is just a text file and not an executable, which the command probably expects. I ended up getting a bunch of Permission denied messages even though I ran it in sudo.

So how would I build mod_wsgi against a Python that has been built from source code?

Also, are there any inherent issues I should expect in the future in having the Python I built and the default Ubuntu Python co-existing in separate directories?

Answer 1

Instead of

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-python=/usr/local/share/man/man1/python2.7.1

I would assume you would want to use:

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.7.1

I think you want to tell mod_wsgi to use the path to the python executable rather than the man page