compiling Python 2.1.1

[Roman Suzi]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> 
>     Roman> How people compile Python 2.1.1 from src.rpm on not-so-ancient
>     Roman> RedHat 6.2 (without tricks)???
> 
> Checked into CVS is a slight modification of setup.py that may help you
> compile on a system with potentially multiple versions of libdb.  Attached
> is a context diff.  Feedback on whether or not this helps people would be
> appreciated.

he-he. I have 1.5.2 with no Distutils. To use setup.py I need to
install them first... Luckily, I already have RPM v4 enabled RPM.
(It was fun to find rpm v3 rpm package to install new rpm :-)

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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