I'm installing an app that requires Carbon and some other Python 2.7 features.
The version of Oracle Linux we're using comes with 2.6. I've read that it is not a good idea to directly update the O/S as it "may break things" so I'm doing make altinstall. I've downloaded Python-2.7.11 Downloaded zlib-1.2.8 Done ./configure --prefix=/root/Python-2.7.8 --with-libs=/usr/local/lib --disable-ipv6 However, I get an error while compiling. make altinstall gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Modules/python.o ./Modules/python.c In file included from Include/Python.h:58, from ./Modules/python.c:3: Include/pyport.h:256:13: error: #error "This platform's pyconfig.h needs to define PY_FORMAT_LONG_LONG" make: *** [Modules/python.o] Error 1 I CAN compile without zlib, but then pip gives an error. python2.7 get-pip.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "get-pip.py", line 19017, in <module> main() File "get-pip.py", line 194, in main bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir) File "get-pip.py", line 82, in bootstrap import pip zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available I'd use findRPM but that seems to be 2.7.8, not 2.7.11, and it seems reasonable, if I'm building this, to build the most recent version. Any ideas? I have web searched this; I found a bug that was closed in 2014, and I just got all new source *right now*. I'm doing a very vanilla install on Oracle Linux Server release 6.7 Thank you, == John == -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list