Build Python 3 on RHEL 5 or CentOS 5

build-python-rpm.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Requires fpm (path configurable via $FPM) and a working
# build environment.

set -e

version=$1
vendor=$2

if [ -z "$version" ]; then
    echo "usage: $0 version" >&2
    exit 1
fi

if [ -n "$vendor" ]; then
    iteration="1.$vendor.el5"
else
    iteration="1.el5"
fi

url="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/$version/Python-$version.tgz"
tarball=$(basename "$url")
src=$(basename "$tarball" .tgz)
dest="/tmp/python-$version-rpmbuild"

if [ ! -d "/tmp/$src" ]; then
    [ -f "/tmp/$tarball" ] || wget -O "/tmp/$tarball" $url
    cd /tmp && tar -xzf "$tarball"
fi

if [ ! -f "$dest/usr/bin/python3" ]; then
    cd "/tmp/$src" && \
        ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-ipv6 && \
        make install DESTDIR="$dest"
fi

[ -z "$FPM" ] && FPM=fpm

options="-s dir -t rpm -v $version --iteration $iteration -C $dest"

$FPM -n python33 $options --conflicts python31.x86_64 \
    -x 'usr/bin/*config*' \
    usr/bin \
    usr/lib \
    usr/share
$FPM -n python33-devel $options --conflicts python31-devel.x86_64 \
    usr/bin/python3-config \
    usr/bin/python3.3-config \
    usr/bin/python3.3m-config \
    usr/include