Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-13 Thread Andy Leszczynski
Jeremy Jones wrote: I guess I'm still having a hard time understanding what does it matter?. I was under impression that configure embeds the prefix in the build itself. I was concerned to have to preform the configure/make every time I change the destination path. It turns out that the

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Andy Leszczynski leszczynscyATnospam.yahoo.com.nospam writes: Robert Kern wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Jeremy Jones wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Download the source, untar, cd to the new directory, run: ./configure --prefix=/opt/mypython make make install Is there any way to pass the

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-08 Thread Roel Schroeven
Jeremy Jones wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Is there any way to pass the prefix to the make install? Why make depends on that? A. What does it matter? If you *could* pass it to make, what does that buy you? I'm not a make guru, but I'm not sure you can do this. Someone else better

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-08 Thread Jeremy Jones
Roel Schroeven wrote: Jeremy Jones wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Is there any way to pass the prefix to the make install? Why make depends on that? A. What does it matter? If you *could* pass it to make, what does that buy you? I'm not a make guru, but I'm not sure you

Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-07 Thread Andy Leszczynski
Hi, I run Mandrake 10.0 with python 2.3 installed by default. I want to keep it as it is but need another, very customized Python installation based of 2.3 as well. I would prefer to have it the way it is on Windows, one folder e.g. /opt/mypython with all the stuff under that. It would be

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Andy Leszczynski wrote: Hi, I run Mandrake 10.0 with python 2.3 installed by default. I want to keep it as it is but need another, very customized Python installation based of 2.3 as well. I would prefer to have it the way it is on Windows, one folder e.g. /opt/mypython with all the stuff

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-07 Thread Andy Leszczynski
Jeremy Jones wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Download the source, untar, cd to the new directory, run: ./configure --prefix=/opt/mypython make make install Is there any way to pass the prefix to the make install? Why make depends on that? A. --

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-07 Thread Andy Leszczynski
Robert Kern wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Jeremy Jones wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Download the source, untar, cd to the new directory, run: ./configure --prefix=/opt/mypython make make install Is there any way to pass the prefix to the make install? Is passing it to the configure

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Andy Leszczynski wrote: Jeremy Jones wrote: Andy Leszczynski wrote: Download the source, untar, cd to the new directory, run: ./configure --prefix=/opt/mypython make make install Is there any way to pass the prefix to the make install? Why make depends on that? A. What does it