[Zope] [Fwd: Questions on your ZmySQLDA Tutorial]

[elijah wright]

>1. Fresh install of Redhat 6.1
>2. Installed Python from source, and copied over the  python that Redhat
>automatically installed.

i've seen this same recommendation twice in the last couple of days... to
"just copy over the python executable redhat installed"....

eventually, this is going to jump up and bite someone in the ass.  leaving
extra libraries lying around all over a system (which you're going to do
by 'just copy over' methods...) is quite a pain to clean up.

the better solution would be:

rpm -e python --nodeps
build python with threads enabled
do a make install
make sure your path knows about /usr/local/bin.

elijah wright
elw@stderr.org