Need help compiling Python-devel

[Michael Torrie]

On 07/05/2016 10:35 AM, TM wrote:
> This option is not straight forward. There are too many dependencies.
> Easier in Linux not so easy in AIX.
> 
> Is it possible to copy the python executable (ie the code below)?
> # cp -p python python-devel

What is this python-devel thing?  You said you wanted the libraries and
header files. Those are part of the python source distribution.  If you
have Python compiled and running, then the libraries are already there
since python needs them to run, and, if you installed from source, you
should already have the header files.

I'm unclear as to why you would copy the python binary to python-devel.