On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@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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