Update to Python 2.3 on Red Hat Linux 9

[Jay Bromley]

martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis) wrote in message news:<m3ptimpoaw.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>...
> jaybromley at hotmail.com (Jay Bromley) writes:
> 
> > So the questions is, can I build Python 2.3 so that it recognizes all
> > the packages that are available to Python 2.2.2? Is this LD_RUN_PATH
> > stuff? 
> 
> You can't; this is not supported.
> 
> The ABI has changed, so the old modules just wouldn't work anymore if
> they were found.
> 
> > Or do I really need to find out all the libraries in use with
> > 2.2.2 and compile these for 2.3?
> 
> Yes.

Thank you for confirming this for me. After doing some additional
digging around rebuilding everything for the new python was the only
way I found to do this, but I was still hoping there was an easier
way.

Regards,
Jay