How can I troubleshoot Python “Could not find platform independent libraries ”

Question

I\'m trying to use Fontcustom to create an icon font using svg files and fontforge. I\'m on OSX.7. However, whenever I run the program I get the error

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Answer 1

I had this issue while using Python installed with sudo make altinstall on Opensuse linux. It seems that the compiled libraries are installed in /usr/local/lib64 but Python is looking for them in /usr/local/lib.

I solved it by creating a dynamic link to the relevant directory in /usr/local/lib

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload/ /usr/local/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload

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I suspect the better thing to do would be to specify libdir as an argument to configure (at the start of the build process) but I haven't tested it that way.