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Add more information regarding the altinstall target.

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Neil Schemenauer 2001-02-16 04:18:08 +00:00
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@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ created. The only file not installed with a version number in its
name is the manual page, installed as "/usr/local/man/man1/python.1"
by default.
If you have a previous installation of a pre-2.0 Python that you don't
If you have a previous installation of Python that you don't
want to replace yet, use
make altinstall
@ -566,6 +566,12 @@ This installs the same set of files as "make install" except it
doesn't create the hard link to "python<version>" named "python" and
it doesn't install the manual page at all.
Alpha/beta revision levels are stripped from the executable and
library filenames during installation. For example, Python2.1a2 will
install as python2.1, overwriting the previous python2.1. To avoid
this, you could set the Makefile VERSION variable manually
(e.g. VERSION=2.1a2) before running "make install" or "make altinstall".
The only thing you may have to install manually is the Python mode for
Emacs found in Misc/python-mode.el. (But then again, more recent
versions of Emacs may already have it.) Follow the instructions that