How to build pygtk with non system default python?
 

I'm on Debian Lenny. I've built and installed python-3.2 in /opt/python-3.2. Then i want to build and install pygtk, pycairo with /opt/python-3.2 and install them in that folder and not to use system default python (which is python-2.6) for their build process.

How do I tell pygtk and pycairo 's configure and makefile script to use /opt/python-3.2 's interpreter, include file and library for their build process(and not the system default python)?

I tried doing ./configure --help in pygtk folder but there was no option for specific non-system default python's folder location. Anyone has any ideas?

If I only

before running pygtk and pycairo's configure script will that be enough?

Python 3 is a new different Python. I guess that the pygtk and pycairo
you can get now are for Python 2.

But anyway this works for setting a 'python' : grep -n PYTHON configure
to find where in 'configure' PYTHON is defined, and then edit PYTHON = " "
to : PYTHON = /opt/python-3.2/bin/python


Suggest : Read about Python 3, and find what has to be changed to
make it possible porting Python 2 applications to "3".
..

knudfl said:
Thank you for your help. I'll look into it. Also I'll check what you said about porting python 2 app to python 3.