Copying a compiled Python from one system to another

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 04:45 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> writes:
>>> Yes, this. You need gcc 4.8 or better to build CPython 3.6, and the most
>>> recent any of my systems support is 4.4.
>>
>> Building gcc takes a while but it's reasonably simple.  Just start it
>> going and read a book for a while.
>
> The dependencies needed to build 4.8 aren't available for my system. And
> there's no supported upgrade path.

At this point, I think you're at "try it and let us know". There's not
a lot more that can be predicted.

ChrisA