[Python-Dev] Configure option to change Python's name? (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Jan 21 19:22:53 EST 2004

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

Jack Jansen wrote:

The idea was triggered by Michael Hudson, who wanted to install a debugging-enabled framework build of Python on MacOSX, which shouldn't interfere with the normal Python (either Apple-installed or user-installed). It turns out this is doable through meticulous hacking of the Makefile after configure (and, for now, ignoring the few hardcoded "Python.framework" references in Lib, but those need fixing anyway). For other unix systems a similar approach would work to isolate a debug-python from the normal production python. Why can't you configure with an entirely different --prefix, such as /just/for/me?

That only works if you want to provide the full path to the executable each time you use it (or if you are willing to set up a link or alias that sits in the PATH that does what Jack suggests).

I'm somewhere between +0 and +1; the former is because I worry a bit about dealing with people who do this when they don't know what they're doing.

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