c - Python's bz2 module not compiled by default

Question

It seems that Python 2.6.1 doesn't compile bz2 library by default from source.

I don't have lib-dynload/bz2.so

What's the quickest way to add it (without installing Python from scratch)?

OS is Linux 2.4.32-grsec+f6b+gr217+nfs+a32+fuse23+tg+++opt+c8+gr2b-v6.194 #1 SMP Tue Jun 6 15:52:09 PDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

IIRC I used only --prefix flag.

Answer 1

You need libbz2.so (the general purpose libbz2 library) properly installed first, for Python to be able to build its own interface to it. That would typically be from a package in your Linux distro likely to have "libbz2" and "dev" in the package name.