On 10/01/2016 05:21 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > Long story short: I have no working systems capable of compiling the > latest Python 3.6, and no time to upgrade my usual machines to > something which will work. > > However I do have access to another machine (actually a VM) which > can compile Python 3.6. It's not practical for me to use it as a my > main development machine, but as a temporary measure, I thought I > could compile 3.6 on this VM, then copy the python binary to my usual > desktop machine. > > What sort of challenges am I likely to find? Both machines are Linux, > but different distros.
If they use the same major version of glibc, both are either 64-bit or 32-bit, then if you compile to a self-contained location like /opt and then copy that folder over it will run just fine. If you compile to /usr, you'll have to make sure you tar up all the bits that are scattered around the various directories under /usr. What distros are we talking about here? Ideally it would be nice to build install-able packages for the target OS. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
