Re: Install from source on a x86_64 machine

2006-10-19 Thread Christopher Taylor
> Generally, the install process should respect the prefix (ie. /usr in > your case, /usr/local in the default case) and then choose the > appropriate library directories below that (ie. /usr/lib, /usr/lib64 in > your case), but I can't find anything obvious in the README about > specifying archite

Re: Install from source on a x86_64 machine

2006-10-19 Thread Paul Boddie
Christopher Taylor wrote: > > ok, so where does that leave me. I'm not even sure which files > *should* be put in /lib64 vs lib. I'd imagine that anything which is a .so file (plus the modules which depend on it, I suppose) should be put in the appropriate library directory. Thus, 32-bit librarie

Re: Install from source on a x86_64 machine

2006-10-19 Thread Christopher Taylor
> The README should provide sufficient information, although if you want > to install Python into /usr rather than /usr/local (as I believe is the > default), you need to run configure as follows: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr > Yeah, I saw that in the readme. > > In fact, it's /usr/bin/python, /

Re: Install from source on a x86_64 machine

2006-10-19 Thread Paul Boddie
Christopher Taylor wrote: > > Being relatively new to linux I'm a little confused about what options > I need to use to build python from source. The README should provide sufficient information, although if you want to install Python into /usr rather than /usr/local (as I believe is the default),

Install from source on a x86_64 machine

2006-10-18 Thread Christopher Taylor
Hello all, Being relatively new to linux I'm a little confused about what options I need to use to build python from source. Currently, I have python installed as part of the inital RHEL4 load located at /usr/bin/Python and /usr/bin/Python2.3 . Some of the files are located in /usr/lib64/Python2