Downloads and builds Python 3.5.2 locally

build-python3-locally.sh

#### Description: downloads and installs python 3.5.2 locally

PYTHON_VERSION=3.5.2
PREFIX=$HOME/.local

WORK_DIR=$HOME/src
TMP_DIR=$HOME/tmp/python
LD_RUN_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
SRC_DIR=$WORK_DIR/Python-${PYTHON_VERSION}


# Setup folders
mkdir -p $PREFIX
mkdir -p $WORK_DIR
mkdir -p $TMP_DIR


# Download the source files
if [ ! -d ${SRC_DIR} ]
then
  cd $WORK_DIR
  wget -q https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION}/Python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tgz
  tar xvf Python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tgz
fi


# Build
cd $TMP_DIR
${SRC_DIR}/configure  \
  --enable-shared           \
  --prefix=${PREFIX}    \
  LDFLAGS="-W1, -rpath ${LD_RUN_PATH}"
make
make install

# Cleanup
if [ ! -z "$TMP_DIR"]
then
  rm -fr $TMP_DIR
fi