[Python-Dev] python 2 for building python 3

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 13:23 +0000, Mark Dickinson a écrit :
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > Er, normally you don't need *any* Python installed to build Python (be
> > it 3.x or 2.x).
> 
> Are you sure about this?  I remember needing an existing Python to
> building Python 2.7 on a new python-less install of FreeBSD a couple
> of months ago.

I remember compiling a Python 2.6 (2.5?) on a machine with no Python
installed. But that was long ago.

(of course, this is difficult to check on a standard development
machine :-))

Regards

Antoine.