[mod_python] Point of frustration/disappointment

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:20 +1000, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> On 29/07/2005, at 9:10 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't.
> >
> > $ PYTHON_BIN=/usr/bin/python2.2 ./configure
> > ...
> > checking for --with-python... no
> > checking for python... (cached) /usr/bin/python
> > checking Python version... 1.5
> > checking whether Python is compiled with thread support... yes
> > ....
> 
> Run:
> 
>    make distclean
> 
> It looks like you are rerunning configure when there is already a
> cached set of values from running configure a previous time where
> it picked up the version of Python you don't want. Ie., you don't
> want to see "(cached)".

Ahhh, good eyes.  Yes, this does work then, at least it now configures
cleanly.  Here are my notes:

 systems have:
   apache      1.3  
   python      1.5  (primarily for yum)
   python2     2.2  (exists for Mailman)

 adding:
   mod_python  2.7.8 (from Fedora Legacy RH7.3 repository)
  
   download SRPM mod_python-2.7.8-1.7.3.2.legacy.src.rpm
   manually extract, and manually apply included patches

   configure mod_python with:
   $PYTHON_BIN=/usr/bin/python2.2 ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
   
   in order to 'make' the Makefile and other pieces still need
   for /usr/bin/python to be v2.2.  /usr/bin/python is a hard-link
   to /usr/bin/python1.5 (just as /usr/bin/python2 is a hard-link
   to /usr/bin/python2.2). To get around this we replace the existing
   /usr/bin/python with a hard-link to the python2.2 binary.

   $rm -f /usr/bin/python; ln /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python

   now we can compile and install successfully.
   
   $make OPT="`/usr/sbin/apxs -q CFLAGS` -fPIC"
   $make install


Hope this helps someone, please email me if it ever does.

-Jim P.