[CentOS] compiling python

Fri May 25 11:42:41 UTC 2012
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Rita <rmorgan466 at gmail.com>

>I would like to compile python 2.7.3 for centos and was wondering if there
>were any instructions I should follow. I would like to keep the standard
>python the way it is. I would like to compile to /opt. Any tips or ideas
>would be much appreciated.


Read the file README from the python tar.gz file.
Use "--prefix".

JD