I was getting the following error gen trying to install gnureadline via pip:
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/gnureadline/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-1_fHxP-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/gnureadline
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
exit = run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/runner.py", line 12, in run
return pip.main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 235, in main
return command.main(cmd_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 161, in main
text = '\n'.join(complete_log)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 66: ordinal not in range(128)
Turns out that is an issue generated by the use of older versions of pip: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2667
The the version of pip in my server was 1.5.4 so I updated it:
sudo python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Downloading/unpacking pip from https://pypi.python.org/packages/py2.py3/p/pip/pip-7.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=5ff9fec0be479e4e36df467556deed4d
Downloading pip-7.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.1MB): 1.1MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: pip
Found existing installation: pip 1.5.4
Not uninstalling pip at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
Successfully installed pip
Cleaning up...
Mine was a new server so I installed some needed common libs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31508762/exception-using-pip-install
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libncurses5-dev
Then I tried to install gnureadline again and everything worked fine :)
