> -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:34:41 -0700 > tbird20d@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > With Ubuntu 16.04 (and presumably Debian distros of the same age), > > the instructions for setting up a python virtual environment should > > do so with the python 3 interpreter. On these older distros, the > > default python (and virtualenv command) might be python2 based. > > > > Some of the packages that sphinx relies on are now only available > > for python3. If you don't specify the python3 interpreter for > > the virtualenv, you get errors when doing the pip installs for > > various packages > > > > Fix this by adding '-p python3' to the virtualenv recommendation > > line. > > > > Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxx> > > I've applied this, even though it feels a bit fragile to me. But Python > stuff can be a bit that way, sometimes, I guess. I agree it seems a bit wonky. The less fragile approach would have been to just always add the '-p python3' option to the virtualenv setup hint, but Mauro seemed to want something more fine-tuned. As far as the string parsing goes, I think that the format of strings returned by lsb-release (and the predecesors that sphinx_pre_install checks) is unlikely to change. Thanks for applying it. -- Tim
