I have built and installed Python on AIX as well as installed a stack of Python tools. The version I installed is 2.7.2. Everything is working fine but I want to install Python 2.7.6 and the tool stack. Before I installed 2.7.2, I installed 2.6.x. I was able to install the 2.7.2 and 2.6.x side by side because they have different minor numbers. This allowed me to be able to thoroughly test 2.7.2 before pointing the link for python to it.
Now however, I can't see an easy way to install 2.7.6 beside the 2.7.2 since by default, Python installs only to the minor number so if I install 2.7.6, it will overwrite 2.7.2 since they will both install to 2.7. I have tried editing the configuration files configure.ac and configure to set VERSION, PYTHON_VERSION, and PACKAGE_VERSION to 2.7.6. This actually seemed to work fine so I ended up with 2.7.6 installed beside 2.7. However, when I tried to install other python packages using a command like: python2.7.6 setup.py install the python2.7.6 binary was used for the install but the setup wrote the package library to .../lib/python2.7 not .../lib/python2.7.6. I thought maybe it had something to do with bin/python-config pointing to bin/python-config2.7, so I pointed python-config to python-config2.7.6 but that didn't help. Is there a way to do what I want to do (i.e. install 2.7.6 beside 2.7)? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
