On 19/10/2011 9:46 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
We should definitely fix these sorts of silly print issues.
It won't be only print issues, python 2 and 3 are a lot uncommon. You can put a google summer of code student on the porting task.
Here's a silly idea: Create a new user and make ~/bin/python a symlink to the python2 program for that user (with ~/bin in that user's path). The package management stuff won't work for that user, but he'll be able to compile OK. Then you can su to that user for compilation. JMarc, can we have configure check and make sure it's found a version of Python 2.x? I'm guessing the issue here is that it finds "python" and thinks it's won the lottery, whereas it ought to go on to check for "python2" or something.
Please try after r39890 for the fix to configure. We still should change the hardcoded "python" in src/support/os.cpp and in lib/configure.py at least, and use the $PYTHON found by configure.
Richard
-- Julien
