Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Help needed with compiling python Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 08:00:58 +0100 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 22 Message-ID: <87h9k9dz2t.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <877fl596c6.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <8737vt927c.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="528adfd6ad074c92fdc6a7f8fb9e23d8"; logging-data="29973"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bAgqJCB+3m4GSZQySoVEqYh57LtNem28=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:qdiLdvks76g9GyECuKhiCNsMY3M= sha1:JhHqOHmK3ZL0rSLIJLb2yBLgbqA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:99534 On Wednesday 25 Nov 2015 23:58 CET, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:52:23 +0100, Cecil Westerhof > writes: >> >> My system python was all-ready damaged: that is why I wanted to >> build myself. > > Your Suse system probably wants to use python for something. If your > system python is damaged, you badly need to fix that, using the > system package managers tools, before Suse does some sort of update > on you, using the broken python, which damages more of your system. I tried that. But it installs only things in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64, nothing in /usr/bin, but at the same time it is adamant that it installed python. I wanted a quick fix, but it looks like that is not going to work. :'-( I'll have to find a way to get things fixed. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof