[Python-Dev] python 2 for building python 3 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Dec 4 14:36:06 CET 2010


Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 13:23 +0000, Mark Dickinson a écrit :

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > Er, normally you don't need any Python installed to build Python (be > it 3.x or 2.x).

Are you sure about this? I remember needing an existing Python to building Python 2.7 on a new python-less install of FreeBSD a couple of months ago.

I remember compiling a Python 2.6 (2.5?) on a machine with no Python installed. But that was long ago.

(of course, this is difficult to check on a standard development machine :-))

Regards

Antoine.



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