Compiling vim with specific version of Python

Question

I\'m working on several Python projects who run on various versions of Python. I\'m hoping to set up my vim environment to use ropevim, pyflakes, and pylint but I\'ve run into s

Answer 1

I would like to give a similar solution to crowder's that works quite well for me.

Imagine you have Python installed in /opt/Python-2.7.5 and that the structure of that folder is

$ tree -d -L 1 /opt/Python-2.7.5/
/opt/Python-2.7.5/
├── bin
├── include
├── lib
└── share

and you would like to build vim with that version of Python. All you need to do is

$ vi_cv_path_python=/opt/Python-2.7.5/bin/python ./configure  --enable-pythoninterp --prefix=/SOME/FOLDER

Thus, just by explicitly giving vi_cv_path_python variable to configure the script will deduce everything on it's own (even the config-dir).

This was tested multiple times on vim 7.4+ and lately with vim-7-4-324.