On 09-11-05 01:37:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > (i just asked about this on the test list but it seems that it's > equally appropriate here.) > > any problems with installing python-3.1.1 side-by-side on a fedora > 11 system, and having programmers invoke it with an explicit > reference > to "python3"? > > just for fun, i grabbed : > > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.1.1/Python-3.1.1.tar.bz2 > > unloaded it under my home directory, found out quickly that i needed > to install tk-devel, tcl-devel and libsqlite3x-devel, did that, then > -- following the README -- ran > > $ ./configure > $ make > $ make test > > the only glitches were, during the test step, the occasional > diagnostic that a test was being skipped because some resource wasn't > enabled, such as: > > ... > test_codecmaps_cn > test_codecmaps_cn skipped -- Use of the `urlfetch' resource not > enabled > ... > > beyond that, things seemed to work, after which i'd normally run > > # make install > > if anyone else has gone down this road, any warnings? make altinstall > and any hint > as to how to get that 'urlfetch' resource? there doesn't appear to > be anything in the configure step that enables or disables that, and > that diagnostic shows up several times, albeit not fatally. make EXTRATESTOPTS="-uurlfetch" test I don't usually bother. > in any event, can installing python-3.1.1 like this cause any grief > with the current system? it's mostly for people who want to start > programming in python, and it seems to make sense to start them off > with python 3. Don't, as some have done, add anything to /etc/ld.so.conf*. 8v) -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
