Make pytave available to Sage

I was wondering whether any attempt had been made to make Pytave available to Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/)

Sage comes by default with a pipe-based interface to Octave which is buggy and slow. However interacting between a Sage worksheet and an Octave session is awesome ! It would greatly benefit from the Pytave work.

There is an experimental version of boost available as an SPKG extension for Sage, (just type sage -i boost) to install it, but I had no success building the pytave library for Sage.

Basically I have run a Sage subshell to run the commands describe in the INSTALL file , i.e :

sage -sh
autoreconf -- install
./configure

Then configure fails with :

checking python extra libraries... -lpthread -ldl -lutil
checking python extra linking flags... -Xlinker -export-dynamic
checking consistency of all components of python development environment... no
configure: WARNING:
========================================================================
Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library
has been installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it
to configure, via the LDFLAGS environment variable.

Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"

ERROR!
You probably have to install the development version of the Python
package for your distribution. The exact name of this package varies
among them.