> I need to compile Python with the packages "socket,sys,time,os", but > I've never done it before, and would like confirmation that this will > work as planned: > > ====== > make clean > ./configure --with-socket --with-sys --with-time --with-os > make > make install > ======
No, it won't. You don't give any arguments to configure normally, when building Python. Instead, setup.py will detect what libraries are on your system, and use them. There are a few --enable and --with flags supported; ask --help what they are. The modules you want to have (socket, sys, time, and os) are always built. > In addition, are there recommended switches I should know about? > > Incidently, is there an equivalent to PHP's phpinfo() to check what > packages Python provides on a host? There is sys.builtin_module_names. However, some modules are not builtin (they are shared libraries instead); it's easiest to ls build/lib.<system> after compiling Python to see what modules have been built. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
