[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.4 in /usr/local/bin?
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Thu Jan 27 14:31:13 CET 2005
On Jan 27, 2005, at 3:21, Richard Jones wrote:
> On 27/01/2005, at 5:50 PM, Pierre Thibault wrote:
>> I just made an install of Python 2.4 on my machine. The 'README' is
>> saying that the install is going to take place on /usr/bin but in
>> reality things were installed in /usr/local/bin'.
>
> If you built it from scratch, it'll configure to go in /usr/local/bin
> by default, so the README lies. I'd highly recommend you *don't*
> install to /usr/bin over the top of the Apple Python (or if you do,
> when you're done reinstate the symlink to make python2.3 the default).
Don't make any attempt to replace Apple's Python in the first place.
You *will* break things. py2app, for example, will not correctly
bundle applications if you install a non-standard Python to /usr (not
local).
-bob
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