On 30 January 2013 00:40, Old Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I'm installing git latest (1.8.1.12) on a Solaris 10 system > that previously didn't have python. > > The GIT documentation requires Asciidoc to build, and Asciidoc > requires Python. I installed Python 3.1.2 from sunfreeware.com, > and softlinked python3 to python. > > Running 'asciidoc' then gives the error: > ------------------ > File "/usr/local/bin/asciidoc", line 101 > except KeyError, k: raise AttributeError, k > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > ------------------ > > I uninstalled Python3 and added Python2 (the sunfreeware.com Python > packages are both called SMCpython so I can't install both at once),
Then your packagers have done it wrong, because Python is specifically built to allow both pythons to be installed, so go beat them up. > and > it seems to work. However, I now couldn't use Python 3 if some other > program needed it - unless I build python from source. > > I would suggest a nicer error message if it detects that only > Python 3 is installed, with explanation that Python 2 is required. Just run python2 asciidoc .... Cheers Lex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
