Build any python version for venv

Build Python

work in progress

Status: builds and run/bin/python3 --version works. But venv, pip or interpreter mode do not.

Asked for help: https://discuss.python.org/u/joba-1/activity (github based account)

Prerequisites

Most should be there, check https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/index.html#install-dependencies for details

zypper in tk-devel sqlite3-devel gdbm-devel readline6-devel openssl-devel libffi-devel

User Build

ver=3.11.1
cd
wget -O- https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${ver}/Python-${ver}.tar.xz | tar xJf -
cd Python-${ver}
./configure --enable-optimizations --with-lto=full --prefix=$PWD/run --libdir=$PWD/run/lib
make -j8
make install
run/bin/python3 --version

Newer script getpy.sh ver [dir]:

#!/bin/bash

# get version (like available in ftp_url) and directory where to install
# needs relevant dev packages installed: 
# zypper in tk-devel sqlite3-devel gdbm-devel readline6-devel openssl-devel libffi-devel

ver="${1-3.10.10}"
dir="${2-$PWD}"

instdir="$dir/python-$ver"
echo "Installing python to '$instdir'"
mkdir -p "$instdir"
cd "$instdir"
wget -O- "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$ver/Python-$ver.tar.xz" | tar xJf -
cd "Python-$ver"
./configure --enable-optimizations --with-lto=full --prefix="$instdir" --libdir="$instdir/lib"
make -j8
make install
"$instdir/bin/python3" -m venv "$instdir/venv/base"
. "$instdir/venv/base/bin/activate"
python3 --version

Use The Build

run/bin/python3 --version

run/bin/python3 -m venv /new/env/path

. /new/env/path/bin/activate

pip install anything...