python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

Mon Aug 20 18:43:27 EDT 2012

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> I was going to chime in with this anyway had the thread said nothing; I
> strongly prefer to specify --prefix explicitly with configure.
>> My personal habit to to build with (adjust to match):
>> --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.6.4
>> and put some symlinks in /usr/local/bin afterwards (python2.6, etc).
>> That way one doesn't tread on the system Python (after all the OS vendor
> distro is also a collection of packages with coordinated versions)
> and one can easily put in another python beside it.

+1.
I like to build a bunch of representative python versions, and test code on
some subset of them - often all of them. I usually do 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.0,
3.1, 3.2 and 3.3, but sometimes I get more specific than that. I'll also
do a couple of jython's and pypy's normally.
It's remarkable how revealing such a simple thing can be for portability.
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