Rebuild issue on Ubuntu

[ratpik]

node-gyp rebuild fails with below error.

gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:337:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd ...
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.15
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok 

The actual error I face is when installing a node app. Relevant trace below. I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 on a 64 bit machine

npm ERR! weak@0.2.2 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the weak@0.2.2 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the weak package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls weak
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd ...
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.22
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

[FelixSeidel]

same problem with Mac OS 10.9.1 (Darwin 13)

[ratpik]

I was able to solve this by installing and defaulting to python2.6

On Ubuntu Saucy:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.6
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.6 20
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 10

you can switch between 2.6 & 2.7 using:
sudo update-alternatives --config python

Btw I installed node using ppa:chris-lea/node.js

Got that from the issue #363

Thanks!