I was struggling due to this problem for two days now and got the solution just now so thought I will share it
with you all; as I don’t want anyone else to land up in trouble as i did so I am using Hardy and was trying to build subvertpy from source as the package was not available for same.
The problem occurs due to absence of Python development headers as many python modules have dependency on Python development headers to compile.
Solution is to install development headers using package manager; open the terminal and issue the following commands
and select the package that matches your installation as in my case it is python2.5-dev; issue the following command to install it
This will install development headers in /usr/include/python2.5 and now you can build your python module successfully.
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