I've made a local installation of Python2.5 with the following instruction :
export BASE=/usr/local/python251 cd Python.2.5.1 ./configure --prefix=${BASE}/\ LDFLAGS="-L\${BASE}/lib/"\ PPFLAGS="-I\${BASE}/include/"\ make make test make altinstall It works fine on Linux except this little inconsistency : --------------------- % /usr/local/python251/bin/idle zsh: ./idle: bad interpreter: /usr/local/python25/bin/python: aucun fich ier ou répertoire de ce type zsh: exit 127 ./idle -------------------- Indeed, the make altinstall instruction does not make the link from python2.5 to python, but idle contains the following code : --------------------- % more idle #!/usr/local/python251/bin/python from idlelib.PyShell import main if __name__ == '__main__': main() --------------------- Shouldn't the shebang be replaced with #!/usr/local/python251/bin/ python2.5 ? This pb doesn't appear with pydoc and pycolor, so it smells like a bug to me Bests, -- BL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list