This means that in order to develop C++ libraries for python, you need some C++ header files that come with python. These header files are called the “python SDK”.
Linux distributions often include two packages like:
python2.2
python2.2-dev
The second package, the ‘dev’ package, is the one that contains the SDK (the header files). Now, I don’t know what mandrake calls this package. But you need to find it.
More difficult is the fact that mandrake doesn’t include several of the tools you need to build panda. For example, mandrake doesn’t include ‘bison’ and ‘flex’, tools which are normally standard under linux but for some reason are missing from mandrake.