[Interest] Forcing version of python when building on CentOS6, also, versions for flex and bison

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 12 February 2015 20:30:45 Simon Matthews wrote:
> In my quest to build Qt5 with WebKit on CentOS5, I have come across
> another problem. As stated, the build requires python 2.6 or later. The
> default version of Python on CentOS 5 is 2.4. There is a Python26 package
> available and I have installed this.
> 
> The python26 package installs the executable into /usr/bin/python26. How
> do I make the build process use this? I have tried aliasing: alias
> python=python26
> however, the build still seems to use python 2.4 (/usr/bin/python). There
> doesn't seem to be a configuration option to set the python binary.

Alias doesn't apply to the search paths. Try creating a dir with a symlink 
python -> /usr/bin/python26 and set that in PATH before /usr/bin.

Though that might not be enough, as several scripts search directly for 
/usr/bin/python. You may have to change your default system-wide.


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