On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:45:07 -0500 "Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Seems people want to go down this hellish road for some reason I have yet to understand.
I'd avoid it, but client's app demands latest stuff ...
Messing with python can make your system angry and can affect many other packages like rpm and yum, so proceed with caution and backups.
Just define __python_ver to something meaningful, like "24".
You can use pyvault if you absolutely need updated python packages, or you may want to consider building in /opt/ so as not to conflict with current system packages. Of the two, I think pyvault may be the safer option, but have backups anyway. Have I stressed the point about backups?
pyvalut src.rpm barfs even sooner than fedora's.
Anyway, I still don't get why the build process doesn't find libX11, but I found a workaround. The request to link with libX11 comes from python-2.4.1-config.patch, which I modified.