On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:43:51PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 26 August 2013 08:47:30 Dave Reisner wrote: > > This came up in IRC and I thought it might be a good idea to mention it > > to the list. With pylibmount recently being merged into git, some folks > > might have trouble building from HEAD if their /usr/bin/python points to > > a version python>=3.0. While the end goal (after discussion with Karel) > > seems to be that we should be able to build this for both python2 and > > python3, you can work around the build failure for now by simply passing > > --with-python=/usr/bin/python2 (or --without-python if you don't care > > for the new module). > > that doesn't quite work due to logic in the configure script that rejects > anything other than "yes". fixing that doesn't help as AM_PATH_PYTHON only > respects $PYTHON. then you have to set it to the full path and not just > PYTHON=python2 because the configure script wants the full path (to run the > config script). it's all pretty fragile atm. > > i think the workaround is: > $ PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 ./configure > (or point it at python2.7 if your distro installs a fuller version) > -mike Oops. I guess I should have checked the built package afterwards. Thanks for the correction. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
