Yes, you read the subject line right -- Python 1.5. Yes, I am nuts ;) (I like having old versions of Python around for testing historical behaviour.)
On Debian squeeze, when I try to build Python 1.5, I get this error: fileobject.c:590: error: conflicting types for ‘getline’ /usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of ‘getline’ was here make[1]: *** [fileobject.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steve/personal/python/Python-1.5.2/ Objects' make: *** [Objects] Error 2 But when I do the same on Centos 5, it builds successfully and I can then run "sudo make altinstall" to install it. What's going on here and what do I need to do to fix this? Grepping stdio.h gives the same content on both Centos and Debian: $ grep getline /usr/include/stdio.h extern _IO_ssize_t getline (char **__restrict __lineptr, For those wanting to play around with it: wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/src/py152.tgz tar xzf py152.tgz cd Python-1.5.2/ ./configure make sudo make altinstall -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
