Where does "make altinstall" put stuff?

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Sun May 30 02:21:30 EDT 2010


On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:06 PM, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
> I know that one is supposed to use "make altinstall" to install
> versions of Python that won't be the "primary" version.  But what
> directory names does it use for packages and other support files?
> Is this documented somewhere?
>
>  I want to make sure that no part of the existing Python installation
> on Fedora Core is overwritten by an "altinstall" of 2.6.

Check the generated Makefile (created by ./configure)

--James



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