2.3 on Debian Woody: doable?

[Rene Pijlman]

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

--
René Pijlman

[Jan Dries]

Rene Pijlman wrote:

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

I've installed 2.3 from source on a minimal Debian Woody, and it went
flawlessly. The only extra software I had to install was BerkeleyDB for
the bsddb package to work, but that has nothing to do with Debian.

Regards,
Jan

[Rene Pijlman]

Jan Dries:

Rene Pijlman:

There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.

Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?

E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
Woody?

I've installed 2.3 from source on a minimal Debian Woody, and it went
flawlessly. The only extra software I had to install was BerkeleyDB for
the bsddb package to work, but that has nothing to do with Debian.

Great Jan, thanks!

--
René Pijlman

[Jan Dries]

Rene Pijlman wrote:

Matt Goodall:
[Python 2.3 on Debian woody]

I know it's not really Woody but if you feel brave then Debian testing
is fantastic for Python.

Thanks, but I'm developing for a customer with a production server running
woody, so testing is not an option for me.

Building 2.3 from source is ok, so I guess I'll do that. Just have to
figure out how to get mod_python and such up and running.

If you want to build mod_python from source as well, you need to patch
it, at least the 3.0.3 version, to work with Python-2.3.2, as the latter
no longer defined LONG_LONG.

Add the following to src/include/mod_python.h

/* python 2.3 no longer defines LONG_LONG, it defines PY_LONG_LONG */
#ifndef LONG_LONG
#define LONG_LONG PY_LONG_LONG
#endif

Beyond this, a mere
./configure --with-apxs=...
make
make install
did the trick for me.

Regards,
Jan