From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:36:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added warning that make install may overwrite or masquerade the default python binary... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~939
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1206a227c9e46baff80189ce570721436e71a4f8;p=python

Added warning that make install may overwrite or masquerade the default python binary. Use make altinstall instead.
A native English speaker may want to rephrase the paragraph. ;)
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diff --git a/Doc/using/unix.rst b/Doc/using/unix.rst
index 7b69bd9e07..8a452dc1e6 100644
--- a/Doc/using/unix.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/unix.rst
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ invocations. Configuration options and caveats for specific Unix platforms are
 extensively documented in the :file:`README` file in the root of the Python
 source tree.
 
+.. warning::
+   ``make install`` can overwrite or masquerade the :file:`python` binary;
+   ``make altinstall`` is recommended instead of ``make install`` since it
+   only install :file:`{exec_prefix}/bin/python{version}`.
+
 
 Python-related paths and files
 ==============================