Senthil <orsent...@gmail.com> added the comment: python3.1 or python2.6 has always been a "hardlink" to the python in the same directory. You will see that $(LN) python$(VERSION)$(EXE) $(PYTHON)
The one you find as 'softlink' for python2.5 is perhaps ubuntu way of doing it. Python installation from source for (Python2.5 also) creates hardlink only, so this is working as designed. ---------- nosy: +orsenthil _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5966> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com