Python build error - Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:

I was compiling python 2.7 from source for Bro and during 'make' step, encountered some issues like:


Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:
_curses            _curses_panel      _tkinter       
bsddb185           bz2                dl             
imageop            readline           sunaudiodev    
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.

Failed to build these modules:
_io                                                  


The 'make' step of compilation was complete but, my attention was towards the above line. It seemed that some important development libraries were missing! After going through setup.py, I found out the reason and installed the development libraries through yum.

Basically do this:,
yum install bzip2-devel
yum install readline-devel
yum install openssl-devel
yum install expat-devel
yum install gdbm-devel
yum install sqlite-devel
A good note on how to compile python is available here - http://anjsimmo.blogspot.in/2014/10/how-to-install-python-34-from-source-on.html