how to build with 2.4 having 2.6 as main python

[Hans Mulder]

Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
> 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.

Which Linux distribution are you using?


My Debian system does what I consider to be the Right Thing: python
scripts provided by Debian bin with "#!/usr/bin/python".  This allows
me to install some version of Python in another directory and have
that one first in my $PATH, so that if I type python, I get the one
I want and if a system utility needs the system Python, they'll get
their version and nothing breaks.

I happen to be a fan of virtualenv; virtualenv depends on this feature.

Cheers,

-- HansM