Re: separate shared libraries or different Linux/Unix

2008-11-04 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want as much built from source as I can manage so that I know what is and what is not on the system. Sounds like a job for Gentoo. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: separate shared libraries or different Linux/Unix

2008-11-04 Thread chris
Just don't even think of passing --enable-shared to Python's configure, and it will all work fine, and you won't need to use ldconfig. Well I've done --enable-shared so that I can compile mod_python as a shared object within apache. Created /etc/ld.so.conf.d/python2.5.conf on a redhat system,

Re: separate shared libraries or different Linux/Unix

2008-11-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
How do I get zlib available to python? Edit Modules/Setup, and uncomment the zlib line. At your choice, also uncomment the *shared* line (otherwise, zlib would become a builtin module). When you install shared libraries somewhere that also live in /usr/lib, do use ldd to verify that it always

separate shared libraries or different Linux/Unix

2008-10-29 Thread stuntgoat
Hi, I want to start using Python 2.6 and 3000. I have several questions. What, in your experiences, is a functionally elegant solution to installing 2.6 and 3 from source without breaking package dependencies on your favorite Linux/Unix flavor? Is compiling Python 2.6 and 3.0 on a *nix

Re: separate shared libraries or different Linux/Unix

2008-10-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
What, in your experiences, is a functionally elegant solution to installing 2.6 and 3 from source without breaking package dependencies on your favorite Linux/Unix flavor? Is compiling Python 2.6 and 3.0 on a *nix development machine and having it work seamlessly as simple as choosing a