[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src README,1.137,1.138

[Guido van Rossum]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv32722

Modified Files:
	README 
Log Message:
Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS
info: add info about Red Hat's python and python2.


Index: README
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/README,v
retrieving revision 1.137
retrieving revision 1.138
diff -C2 -d -r1.137 -r1.138
*** README	2002/01/04 15:59:57	1.137
--- README	2002/02/04 01:59:23	1.138
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*** 42,48 ****
  
  To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
! current directory and when it finishes, type "make".  The section
! `Build Instructions' below is still recommended reading, especially
! the part on customizing Modules/Setup.
  
  
--- 42,51 ----
  
  To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
! current directory and when it finishes, type "make".  This creates an
! executable "./python"; to install in /usr/local, first do "su root"
! and then "make install".
! 
! The section `Build Instructions' below is still recommended reading,
! especially the part on customizing Modules/Setup.
  
  
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*** 245,248 ****
--- 248,258 ----
  	Modules/Setup, or comment out the crypt module in the same
  	file. Most modern Linux systems use glibc2.
+ 
+ Red Hat Linux: There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python
+ 	1.5.2 on most Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools
+ 	require this version.  Python 2.1.x may be installed as
+ 	/usr/bin/python2.  The Makefile installs Python as
+ 	/usr/local/bin/python, which may or may not take precedence
+ 	over /usr/bin/python, depending on how you have set up $PATH.
  
  FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or