On 2/14/21 7:43 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Some things did not work when I compiled on Ubuntu 20.10 because by > default Ubuntu 20.10 does not have a "python" command and instead > realies on "python2" and "python3" commands. The fix is easy: just > needed to install the package "python-is-python3". I don't know much > about this, but I think it is partly explained here: > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#recommendation > > LyX's configure.py assumes that the command "python" exists when setting > the commands of some converters. Is this something we want to fix? Would > it be reasonable for configure.py to just capture the path to the python > command that it is called with and pass that on when it is setting the > converter commands? > > Or for the next release cycle would it be reasonable to change all > "python" commands to "python3" commands or is that not portable for all > modern platforms (by the time the next major version is released)?
We have a Python detection routine, find_python_binary(), so it could be modified to check for those commands explicitly. I'm reluctant to touch that code myself though. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
