complete novice question

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Madsen <pmadsen at newbridge.com> wrote:
> Downloaded Python-1.5.2.
>
> I've run 'configure' and it seems to have worked. Now, according to the
> Python package's README, I should be able to type 'make' for the rest of
> the install. If I don't have a 'make' file, did the configure portion
> not work?

did you try typing "make" ?

("make" is a unix command that should be available on any
decent unix machine.  afaik, it doesn't work on win95, but
neither do configure, so I suppose you're not posting from
the machine you're building on ;-)

(and yes, the configure command should create a file called
"Makefile", which tells "make" how to build python for you).

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