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 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 n

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. Som

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Meyer
Andy Leszczynski 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 t

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

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"? >

Re: Manging multiple Python installation

2005-09-07 Thread Robert Kern
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 scr

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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

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

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 unlik