Build Python 3.10 on Amazon Linux 2

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Download the sources (sqlite 3230100 was broken, 3220000 was used instead):

  $ wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0h.tar.gz
  $ wget https://sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-src-3220000.zip
  $ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.4/Python-3.10.4.tar.xz

Move src to /usr/local/src. 
  
   $ mv openssl-1.1.0h.tar.gz /usr/local/src/
   $ mv sqlite-src-3220000.zip /usr/local/src/
   $ mv Python-3.10.4.tar.xz /usr/local/src/

Add paths in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc so that when you compile python, it'll find the just compiled programs:

  export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:$MANPATH
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Compile openssl:

  $ tar xf openssl-1.1.0h.tar.gz && cd openssl-1.1.0h
  $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local/
  $ make
  $ make test
  $ make install

Compile sqlite3:

  $ unzip sqlite-src-3220000.zip
  $ mkdir sqlite-src-3220000_build && cd sqlite-src-3220000_build/
  $ ../sqlite-src-3220000/configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-tcl
  $ make
  $ make install

Compile python:

  $ tar xf Python-3.6.5.tar.xz && cd Python-3.6.5/
  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --enable-optimizations
  $ make
   (Ensure that 'make' found both ssl and sqlite libraries.)
  $ make install