Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Cameron Simpson writes: > My personal habit to to build with (adjust to match): > > --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.6.4 > > and put some symlinks in /usr/local/bin afterwards (python2.6, etc). There's actually a program for that, it's called stow. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-21 Thread Jerry Hill
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:34 AM, John Nagle wrote: > After a thread of clueless replies, it's clear that nobody > responding actually read the build log. Here's the problem: The very first reply, Emile's, pointed out that these were optional modules, and that python did, in fact build succe

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 9:34 PM John Nagle said... After a thread of clueless replies, s/clueless/unread Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Peter Otten
John Nagle wrote: > On 8/20/2012 2:50 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: >> On 8/20/2012 1:55 PM Walter Hurry said... >>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: >>> Package dependencies. If the OP intends to install a package that doesn't support other than 2.6, you inst

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread John Nagle
On 8/20/2012 2:50 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 8/20/2012 1:55 PM Walter Hurry said... >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: >> >>> Package dependencies. If the OP intends to install a package that >>> doesn't support other than 2.6, you install 2.6. >> >> It would be

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I was going to chime in with this anyway had the thread said nothing; I > strongly prefer to specify --prefix explicitly with configure. > > My personal habit to to build with (adjust to match): > > --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.6.4 > >

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Aug2012 12:19, Emile van Sebille wrote: | On 8/20/2012 11:37 AM Walter Hurry said... | > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:02:25 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: | >> On 8/20/2012 10:20 AM Walter Hurry said... | >>> I concur, but FYI the version of Python with RHEL5 is 2.4. Still, OP | >>> should stick w

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 1:55 PM Walter Hurry said... On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: Package dependencies. If the OP intends to install a package that doesn't support other than 2.6, you install 2.6. It would be a pretty poor third party package which specified Python 2.6 e

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: > Package dependencies. If the OP intends to install a package that > doesn't support other than 2.6, you install 2.6. It would be a pretty poor third party package which specified Python 2.6 exactly, rather than (say) "Python 2.6 or

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 11:37 AM Walter Hurry said... On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:02:25 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 8/20/2012 10:20 AM Walter Hurry said... I concur, but FYI the version of Python with RHEL5 is 2.4. Still, OP should stick with that unless there is a pressing reason. Hence, the 2.6 ins

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:02:25 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 8/20/2012 10:20 AM Walter Hurry said... >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:05 +0200, Kwpolska wrote: > > > >>> >Do you really need to compile python2.6? RHEL has packages for >>> >python, >>> >and it's better > > s/better/sometimes e

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 10:20 AM Walter Hurry said... On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:05 +0200, Kwpolska wrote: >Do you really need to compile python2.6? RHEL has packages for python, >and it's better s/better/sometimes easier > to use pre-compiled packages rather than compile them yourself. I concu

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:05 +0200, Kwpolska wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ganesh Reddy K > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> We are trying python 2.6 installation on an RHEL PC , >> >> whose 'uname -a' is (Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 >> EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Li

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Kwpolska
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ganesh Reddy K wrote: > Hi All, > > We are trying python 2.6 installation on an RHEL PC , > > whose 'uname -a' is (Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 > EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) > > > But, python compilation is not successfully done an

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 6:31 AM Ganesh Reddy K said... But, python compilation is not successfully done and showing a failure log. Below is the capture of the same. Please see failure log shown in the bottom of this mail. How to solve the failure modules mentioned in the log ( bsddb185, dl , imageop, su