Manging multiple Python installation

[Jeremy Jones]

Andy Leszczynski wrote:

>Jeremy Jones wrote:
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>>Andy Leszczynski wrote:
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>>Download the source, untar, cd to the new directory, run:
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>>./configure --prefix=/opt/mypython
>>make
>>make install
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>Is there any way to pass the prefix to the "make install"? Why "make" 
>depends on that?
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>A.
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What does it matter?  If you *could* pass it to make, what does that buy 
you?  I'm not a make guru, but I'm not sure you can do this.  Someone 
else better versed in make will certainly chime in if I'm wrong.  But I 
think make just looks at the Makefile and does what it's going to do.  
If you want different behavior, you edit the Makefile or you get the 
Makefile created differently with configure.

JMJ