David Edelsohn added the comment:
A Python3 installation will not overwrite a Python2 installation because they
are different major releases and not completely compatible. If Firefox needs
Python2, you should build the latest, stable release of Python 2.7.
I previously used AIX workstations,
David Edelsohn added the comment:
When you configure Python, you can specify an installation directory, which
defaults to /usr/local. make install will overwrite the Python installation
in the specified (possibly default) installation location, but not versions
installed in other locations
Dwight added the comment:
Hi David,
Thanks for the feed back.
I must have a defective distribution because when installed
python 3 it did not remove the older python 2. Also for some
reason I have to set the LIBPATH to include the path to
python libarary. Don't know why; but the build
David Edelsohn added the comment:
The Python testsuite does not produce completely clean results on AIX. You can
see the AIX tester for comparison. Some are caused by assumptions in the
testcases that are correct for Linux but not for some Unix systems, and some
are caused by incorrect
Dwight added the comment:
Thanks for the response.
What is the AIX tester?
Appreciate the explanation of what might be causing the problem.
I do have at least three other version of python installed on
my AIX 7.1 system. Have no idea if these versions produced test errors.
These version of
New submission from Dwight:
Hi,
Looking for assistance in figuring out what caused the following
test failures and how to fix the problems.
Built and run on an IBM pSeries system running AIX 7.1.
Appreciate any help I can get.
I am not a software developer.
I am compiling this because
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