[Mailman-Users] Re: Question about Mailman !!

[Paul H Byerly]

Barry wrote:
>I don't know anything about Ensim, but if it's even remotely Unix-y,

      Ensim is software that is used to make a server do virtual 
hosting.  There are both Linux and Windows versions.  Mine, and many, run 
with Red Hat Linux 7.x.

>you should be able to do an "altinstall" of Python 2.2.2 in /usr/local.
>E.g.:
>
>     ./configure
>     make
>     make altinstall

      I love this list!  Never seen an altinstall mentioned, but they I'm 
still crawling.  Apparently this does the same thing as make install except 
it does not create (or replace) a hard link of the new version to "python".
      Doing some searching on this I'm seeing reference to using the 
--prefix option with configure to name the directory that it will be 
installed to.  Is this necessary, or is it only for installing the files in 
a directory other than the current one?

Thanks for any enlightenment!

<>< Paul