Yo Richard! On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 23:05:52 -0500 Richard Laager via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> On 9/3/20 1:12 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 02:30:43 -0500
> > Richard Laager via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 9/2/20 7:44 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> >>>> 1. Change waf's shebang:
> >>>> -#!/usr/bin/env python
> >>>> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> >>>
> >>> Uh, no. That breaks Gentoo eselect.
> >>
> >> How, specifically?
> >
> > Bentoo allows the user to select his current Python, at runtime.
> > Trivially select his current Python. This is great, sometimes I
> > run 7 Python versions and flip between them quickly for testing.
> Can you show me how that works?
>
> 1. Select (with eselect) Python 3.8 and run:
> python3 --version
> 2. Select Python 3.7 and run:
> python3 --version
# select 3.7:
spidey ~ # python3 --version
Python 3.7.8
# select 3.8:
spidey ~ # python3 --version
Python 3.8.5
The case you left out:
# select 2.7
spidey ~ # python3 --version
Python 3.8.5
Uh, oh. That is why we do not do that.
Similar for other non-python python flavors.
RGDS
GARY
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