Copying a compiled Python from one system to another

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 01:36 am, Ned Deily wrote:

> On 2016-10-02 00:25, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 01:58 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> Hmm, I've possibly missed something here, which may indicate a
>>> problem. Why can't your existing machines build? Is it because they
>>> have too-old versions of tools, and if so, which?
>> 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.
> 
> I'm using a gcc 4.2 to build 3.6.

How on earth do you do that? What magic incantations are you using?

I understand that Python 3.6 is now using C99 features that aren't available
before gcc 4.8.



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Steve
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