[Pythonmac-SIG] Guide to installing Unix-Python on MacOS X

Richard Gordon richard@richardgordon.net
Thu, 17 May 2001 08:17:07 -0400


At 10:19 PM -0700 5/16/01, Bob Savage wrote:
>%sudo ./python.exe setup.py install
>
>[10] copy the executable into the right place (and lose the unfashionable
>".exe"):
>
>%sudo mv python.exe /usr/local/bin/
>
>[11] copy the standard modules into place:
>
>%sudo mv Lib /usr/local/lib/python2.1
>

hi Bob

Out of curiosity, why not just use 'make install' (or 'make 
altinstall if you want to keep an older version intact)? I just built 
2.1 on mkLinux and it went fine. You wouldn't have to move anything 
around then.


Richard Gordon
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