how to build with 2.4 having 2.6 as main python

[Steven D'Aprano]

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