Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 6/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The other solution I would offer is to build your pwn python, and >> put it >> > in /usr/local. >> >> Yea, I agree. Building from source isn't that bad. > > Well, yes and no. A couple of minutes to download, a couple of > minutes to read README, > > ./configure; make; make test > > Total elapsed time so far about 15 minutes. Now comes the hard part > -- floating-point exceptions on the Alpha are not handled by whatever > Python does to test FP, and the sequence of tests bombs out about > half-way through with Floating point exception.
Might even be something like the compiler (or ?-else in the tool-chain) behaves different than those things in more recent distros, or on more commonly-tested architectures. > > Quick google/groups search does not turn up a magic fix. Now I have > to think about two things: skipping the FP tests so everything else > can be tested, and deciding what to do about FP exceptions. > > Besides that, I have to remember why I wanted a more recent Python in > the first place. But it's been educational. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
