Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:exec_prefix>]
The message may look different, depending, for example, on whether you have
$PYTHONSTARTUP set to something meaningful. Playing with $PYTHONHOME didn't help. Very annoying.It turned out, that on a 64-bit platform, by default, platform-independent libraries are installed in
PREFIX/lib,and platform-dependent - in PREFIX/lib64. However, the interpreter remains unaware of PREFIX/lib64.The fix is simple: use
--libdir=[PATH] to force placement of both platform- dependent and independent libraries in the same directory that the interpreter can use:
./configure --prefix=[PATH] --libdir=[PATH]/lib
It doesn't seem important what you choose,
lib, lib64.
