David Edelsohn added the comment: When you configure Python, you can specify an installation directory, which defaults to /usr/local. "make install" will overwrite the Python installation in the specified (possibly default) installation location, but not versions installed in other locations on the systems.
The focus of AIX is as a server system, not a deskside system with a graphical user interface. AIX also has many differences from Linux and other SVR4 systems in the way that libraries and shared libraries are built and linked. Firefox is a very complicated application and I doubt that you will have a lot of success building and running it on AIX. If you really need Firefox web browser on your AIX desktop, I strongly suggest that you run Firefox on another system and use the "display" option to instruct the window to appear on the AIX X Window System. In other words, you can have the web browser appear on the AIX system display without running the web browser on the AIX system. If you need access to local files, you can mount the AIX filesystems on the remote system running the web browser. The Python testsuite errors probably are not the cause of your Firefox build problems. And fixing Python or trying to build Firefox on AIX probably are not effective use of your time and not the best way to solve the real problem of access to a web browser on an AIX display. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23457> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
