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Why Won't This Work?

Ben Ocean lists at TheWebsons.com
Sat Dec 23 15:18:40 EST 2000 
Hmmm. *python* at a command prompt, sans *./* is a command. This worked when
I configured 2.0, which I had to rip out because it's not compatible with
Zope. Also, I tried *make test*

[webmaster at thor Zope-2.2.4-src]$ make test
make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.

Any other ideas as to why I'm not getting my installation of Python 1.5.2 to
respond?
TIA,
BenO

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Wouters [mailto:thomas at xs4all.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 9:44 AM
To: Ben Ocean
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Why Won't This Work?


On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 06:31:38AM -0800, Ben Ocean wrote:

> Because I'm building Zope, I'm trying to install Python-1.5.2. I've
> successfully run:
> ./configure --with-thread
> make
> and everything appears to be in order. But when I type
> python
> at a command prompt, I get a bash error. What have I not done?

That's because the current directory ('.') isn't in your PATH. Try typing
'./python' instead. Note that the best way to test your python binary is
'make test' -- it'll catch practically everything you can try to catch
yourself, and a lot more to boot.

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