Another Guido backport:

Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS
info: add info about Red Hat's python and python2.

diff --git a/README b/README
index ee57182b663c984e6521af533be4cbee621c2711..b86cd76b7881ee0be0f7c5cd78a3a784cf14553d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -41,9 +41,12 @@ If you don't read instructions
 Congratulations on getting this far. :-)
 
 To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
-current directory and when it finishes, type "make".  The section
-`Build instructions' below is still recommended reading, especially
-the part on customizing Modules/Setup.
+current directory and when it finishes, type "make".  This creates an
+executable "./python"; to install in /usr/local, first do "su root"
+and then "make install".
+
+The section `Build Instructions' below is still recommended reading,
+especially the part on customizing Modules/Setup.
 
 
 What is Python anyway?
@@ -249,6 +252,13 @@ Linux:  A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
        module now needs the -lcrypt option.  The setup.py script
        takes care of this automatically.
 
+Red Hat Linux: There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python
+       1.5.2 on most Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools
+       require this version.  Python 2.1.x may be installed as
+       /usr/bin/python2.  The Makefile installs Python as
+       /usr/local/bin/python, which may or may not take precedence
+       over /usr/bin/python, depending on how you have set up $PATH.
+
 FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or
        similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in
        the correct order with the defaults.  Remove "-ltermcap" from