[Stackless] Installing python + stackless python on the same machine?

[Ray Gallagher]

Just a follow up on that last post: 

If you want to install external libraries (python-mysql or whatever), I usually use the Cheeseshop, which involves downloading setuptools.py and running it with the "stackless" binary.. 

Once it's run, it installs itself in the same dir as Stackless, and you can use the easy_install binary to install stuff n junk.

Also:
make sure you have the zlib-dev library installed before you install stackless itself or setuptools.py install falls over.

--- On Sun, 17/1/10, Ray Gallagher <omyar_hunt at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Ray Gallagher <omyar_hunt at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Stackless] Installing python + stackless python on the same machine?
> To: "stackless" <stackless at stackless.com>
> Date: Sunday, 17 January, 2010, 10:48
> I remember when I started using
> stackless, I did the ol' "make install" over the
> ubuntu-installed python and everything python fell over, and
> I had to claw my system back piece by piece.
> 
> these days what I do is :
> 
> 1.   ./configure
> --prefix=/home/me/tools/stackless  (or whereever)
> 1.1. make install '(no sudo required)
> 1.2. then I'll simlink to the
> "~/tools/stackless/bin/python" runnable as "stackless" in
> either my ~/bin directory or /usr/local/bin if I want.
> 
> then from the command line it's just "stackless".
> 
> As a form of free advertising I guess.
> 
> --- On Sun, 17/1/10, Simon Pickles <sipickles at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Simon Pickles <sipickles at googlemail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Stackless] Installing python + stackless
> python on the same machine?
> > To: "stackless" <stackless at stackless.com>
> > Date: Sunday, 17 January, 2010, 10:08
> > Richard Tew wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Andriy Drozdyuk
> > <drozzy at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Sorry, but that thread is confusing.
> > >> When he says "it is a better idea to install
> > stackless in /usr/local/
> > >> " how do I do that?
> > >> It installs wherever it installs by itself
> when I
> > call "make install"?
> > >>     
> > > 
> > > I do not use these tools myself, developing on
> > Windows, but I believe
> > > it is common knowledge that you can choose where
> > software gets
> > > installed by passing options to 'configure'. 
> > Maybe look in
> > > '../configure --help' before you execute it? 
> The
> > word 'prefix' comes
> > > to mind, so I imagine the option would be related
> to
> > that.
> > > 
> > >   
> > Richard is right, you can modify the install location
> in
> > configure.
> > 
> > My advice is don't. It will install in /usr/local,
> leaving
> > your regular python in /usr
> > 
> > Just rename the stackless python binary to give you a
> > choice when running python:
> > 
> > mv /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/bin/spython
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin is scanned before /usr/bin. Renaming
> it
> > avoids your system running stackless when it calls
> 'python'
> > . You can call stackless by running 'spython'
> > 
> > Hope this is right, all from memory :)
> > 
> > 
> > Si
> > 
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