The scribble pad of doom

We’ve set up a new build server at work and for some perplexing reasons the virtualenv python was missing support for sqlite3, even though the system python had it. Although the system python still had sqlite3. We need to make sure the dev package of sqlite3 is installed before compiling.

yum sqlite3-devel
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz
tar -zxvf Python-2.7.2.tgz
cd Python-2.7.2/

Then configure python to be built absolute path of the virtualenv:

./configure --prefix=/var/lib/jenkins/.virtualenvs/clients/
make
make install

Done. :)