[ale] RH 7.1 (Seawolf) development system needed

[Jim Popovitch]

Charles Shapiro wrote:
> I'd like to build python from source on another machine and then transfer it 
> over. 

All I do (for a very similar set of circumstances on RH73 boxes) is get 
the latest Python sources (NOTE: 2.4.3 is out now) and configure it with 
these options.

./configure --disable-ipv6 --disable-toolbox-glue --enable-unicode=ucs4
make; make install

This will install a clean Python-2.4 install in 
/usr/local/lib/Python-2.4 and place binaries in /usr/local/bin.  I then 
tar+gzip those files and push them out to the production boxes.

   tar -czf python2.4.3-build-rh7.3.tar.gz \
          /usr/local/bin/cachecleaner
          /usr/local/bin/smtpd.py
          /usr/local/bin/pydoc
          /usr/local/bin/idle
          /usr/local/bin/python2.4
          /usr/local/bin/python
          /usr/local/lib/python2.4
          /usr/local/man/man1/python.1

Note that bin/python is hardlinked to bin/python2.4 but tar doesn't 
handle that, so you will have 2 separate binaries on the target hosts. 
(not really a big deal)

I'm not sure where you can get RH7.1 ISO's these days, but they are 
probably available on ftp.redhat.com

-Jim P.