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

[Simon Matthews]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Harri Pasanen wrote:

> On 13/02/2015 05:30, 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.
>>
>
> I wonder what would the build require from python that is in python 2.6
> but not in python 2.4?

There were only a very few places where this was an issue. When building 
without ICU (and hence, without WebKit), the build was successful with 
Python 2.4

It would probably take only a couple of small patches to make the code 
compatible with python 2.4.

Simon