On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 09:31 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: >> 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. > > How about installing the same OS on the VM that you're running on the > development machine?
Because then I won't be able to build Python on the VM either, which completely misses the point. I already have three machines that cannot build Python. I don't need a fourth. I need one which *can* build Python. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list