On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:45:07 -0500 "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at 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. -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org/