Copying a compiled Python from one system to another

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 04:45 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> writes:
>> Yes, this. You need gcc 4.8 or better to build CPython 3.6, and the most
>> recent any of my systems support is 4.4.
> 
> Building gcc takes a while but it's reasonably simple.  Just start it
> going and read a book for a while.

The dependencies needed to build 4.8 aren't available for my system. And
there's no supported upgrade path.


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Steve
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