Python by RPM -> bad idea?
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Mon Sep 10 00:48:29 EDT 2001
pkwoods> I'm having problems, and I think they stem from my installing
pkwoods> Python originally through the use of an RPM.
pkwoods> By using an RPM, I get not /config directory with a Makefile,
pkwoods> which sounds reasonable enough, as I didn't compile anything.
If you have a python-devel RPM somewhere (probably where you got your python
rpm), it will almost certainly have the missing /config directory and its
contents. You only need python-devel when you are building other programs
or shared libraries that use python.
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