how to build with 2.4 having 2.6 as main python

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Alexzive <zasaconsulting at gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks guys,
>
> the solution for me was
>
> python2.4 setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local
>
> cheers, AZ
>

Don't do that! Like Steven said, you'll kill your system that way.
Lots of programs in Linux use Python and those programs expect
/usr/bin/env python to map to python2.6. Other versions of Python
should be referenced by the version: so python2.4 for Python 2.4,
python3 or python3.1 if you decide to install Python 3.1.

> On Jun 14, 11:00 am, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:30:09 -0700, Alexzive wrote:
>> > what to change in order to get "python" calling python 2.4.3 instead of
>> > 2.6.4 (at least during python setup.py build)?
>>
>> That will do bad things to your system, which will be expecting the
>> system Python to be 2.6 and instead will be 2.4. You will probably find
>> system tools will start to fail.
>>
>> > I suppose I need something like changing the link to /usr/local/bin/
>> > python..
>> > but I fear to do something bad by myself.. please help!
>>
>> Yes, that will do it, but if you do, you will probably break things. Best
>> to just call the python2.4 binary directly.
>>
>> If you call
>>
>> python2.4
>>
>> from the command line, what happens?
>>
>> --
>> Steven
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