make install

[Steve Holden]

"Terry Hancock" <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1028244253.15075.python-list at python.org...
> Hi all,
>
> I maintain software for a LAN of different systems which
> all need to use Python (among other packages). It sometimes
> happens that I need to compile on a particular "least common
> denominator" machine, even though it isn't my regular
> development machine.
>
> For Python, I'm wondering if I can safely run
>
> ./configure [ ... options ... ]
> make
>
> on the compiling machine, and run
>
> make install
>
> on my regular machine (because of the way the NFS mounts
> are set up, this is much more convenient).
>
> In other words, does "make install" actually compile
> anything or otherwise do CPU-sensitive stuff. Both
> machines will typically be running Unix or Linux.
>
> I suppose this might be generally true, but I'm asking
> specifically about Python. Looking briefly at the
> Makefile suggests that I'm okay to do this.
>

The configure utility is explicitly designed to capture information about
the environment in which it is run (and therefore, it presumes, under which
both the build *and* the install will run). Consequently, if the two
environments aren't *exactly* the same, you might expect to run into
problems. Unfortunately you don't say much about the two environments, so
the best advice is probably :"suck it and see".

regards
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