> You can install a separate python 2.6 stack - e.g: > <http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/epel-i386/python26-2.6.8-2.el5.i386.rpm.html> > > This won't interfere with the default CentOS 5 python 2.4 install > > I think the firefox build process looks for a 'python2.6' binary - if > not, then just add a line to your mozconfig like: > > PYTHON=python2.6 > > I didn't do this, as I already had access to a locally rebuilt 2.6 > install - but I guess the above should work, although I have no idea how > much of the 2.6 stack will be required ... Thanks, James! The epel version of python26 works fine, and the only other package I needed was yasm from rpmforge. Build took <13m on a reasonable machine :)