New submission from German Salazar :
wanted to install 3.6.15, but the source tarball installs 3.6.8
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nosy: salgerman
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python 3.6.15 source tarball installs 3.6.8?
versions: Python 3.7
Change by German Salazar :
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versions: -Python 3.7
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German Salazar added the comment:
>From
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3615/
Downloaded the XZ one:
https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.15/Python-3.6.15.tar.xz
I am currently building the Gzipped one, let's see what it turns out.
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German Salazar added the comment:
I hear you, but I continue to need 3.6 for a bit longer.
I am on Linux, Centos 7; building from sources in a sandbox, no installation
conflict with any else...
How do you confirm that the tarball indeed contains that it says?
I build it and then I do
German Salazar added the comment:
Pre-post-edit: you are right, just saw your answer as I was typing this one.
Aaaa
./python --version
is not enough, I guess I need to properly setup PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
possibly PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
Sorry for the bother, guys. All is good. My
German Salazar added the comment:
So, help me understand, please.
if I use "--enable-shared":
the build produces a rather small python executable; but,
the build produces a dynamic library, too
and the path to the dynamic library must be included into LD_LIBRARY_PATH for
