On 28/10/11 23:10, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:57:15 +1100 > Wayne Blaszczyk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 28/10/11 21:13, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >>> Some observations about the latest Python build. >>> Besides the >>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/Python-3.2.2-bdb_4.8-1.patch >>> missing, there is no actual instruction to apply the patch. >>> The ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/Python-3.2.2.tar.bz2 >>> url is also broken. >>> If we are going to have two links to the same package, we should keep >>> the file type the same otherwise the MD5 sum is only going to apply to >>> the one url and not the other. >>> Regards, >>> Wayne. >> >> I would also like to add that libxcb will not build with Python 3.2. >> I get the following error during make: >> >> Making all in src >> make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/libxcb-1.7/src' >> /usr/bin/python3 ./c_client.py -p /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages >> /usr/share/xcb/xproto.xml >> File "./c_client.py", line 1013 >> except getopt.GetoptError, err: >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> make[1]: *** [xproto.c] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/libxcb-1.7/src' >> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> >> When I tried to build libxml2, it did not detect Python. >> libxslt also did not detect Python. >> I suspect there will be a lot of other packages that will have trouble >> with Python 3.2. > > As DJ Lucas said the other day, it's possible to fix some things with > the 2to3 tool included with python 3. However, there are quite a lot of > things out there that would need fixing so I personally install both > Python-2.7.2 and Python-3.2.2 with 2.7.2 as the default > /usr/bin/python. It's a bit like with gtk+-3, more things are > starting to use gtk+-3 but I think it'll be a while before I stop > installing gtk+-2 > > Andy
Sorry for missing the previous post. Should we not have both versions in the book then? Wayne. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
