On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:43:23 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> With all the tools installed, it's a matter of a few minutes effort to >>> build from scratch: > > [...] >> Now, granted, this was Debian and I can't speak for Centos. But it would >> surprise me greatly if your package manager can't provide build >> essentials. > > I daresay any decent package manager would be able to provide the > complete tool chain for building Python from source. But I have no idea > what tools are needed -- gcc and make, obviously, but what else? Maybe it > really is as simple as "yum install gcc make", but I suspect that it > won't be. "yum install gcc make yacc bison elephant weasel fox cow spam > ham cheese chalk aardvark" perhaps. (I may have made one or two of those > up.)
I am fairly certain nobody would be silly enough to make a package called "gcc". "make", maybe, but not gcc. I mean, that's not even a real word! yum groupinstall "Development Tools" will probably do what the OP needs unless 6 no longer has it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list