Re: [IBMiOSS] gmake: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But it
matters big time that I can have multiple versions of Node.js/Ruby/Python
on my system. Tools like rvm/nvm** were developed for this exact purpose.

For Python, it's venv, and it's included with every official version
of Python since 3.3 (including backported to Python 2.7.9 and later).
I know 5733-OPS Option 2 has it.

(It was originally a third-party package called virtualenv, but it was
so useful that it got absorbed into the standard library.)

Obviously, this (combined with pip) is the preferred way to test
various versions of pure-Python packages on the i, but my
understanding is that there are still some gaps when it comes to
building modules that require C compilation on PASE, even with all of
the 5733-OPS options installed. (I would love for this understanding
to be outdated!)

John Y.