On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 16:10 +0000, Dave Watson (davewats) wrote:
I there a set of instructions for very first time builders ??
Hi, I think that you are misinterpreting the instructions on the website. They don't imply that you already have *PyPy* installed, but they do imply that you have *some* implementation of Python installed, such as CPython, which is probably already the case for you. So if you want to re-build PyPy completely, you need to translate it using some pre-existing Python interpreter, such as CPython, or PyPy itself, and then build it, for which you need a C compiler. Once you've got the PyPy package, you can use virtualenv, so that you can easily switch between different versions and install additional packages using pip. HTH! -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev