On 2020-10-22 16:14 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:25:59AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
> > On 10/22/20 12:56 AM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote:
> > > On October 21, 2020 10:48:39 PM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
> > > <blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> > > > On 10/21/20 10:06 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > In LFS, we can make the symlink to p3.  For p2 in BLFS, we will use
> > > > 'make altinstall'.  Everything else would be for non-python packages
> > > > that either use p2 or create a p2 module.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok, I'll go back and fix it that way locally then. I'm not too far. I have
> > > only like 8 packages that have py2 optional deps listed.
> > > 
> > > So for BLFS, just do it and fix on the fly, or create a tracker bug and
> > > let the devs run through it a time or two? I don't think it's going to be
> > > all that big of a deal, but might be nice to avoid any interim breakage,
> > > do as one big commit or a small series of commits to make it easier on
> > > people who are upgrading.
> > 
> > My thought is to fix it in LFS and python2 in BLFS and fix everything else
> > as the issues come up.  It is a development release right now and we are
> > early in the cycle.
> > 
> >   -- Bruce
> > 
> 
> I still think that creating a symlink for python in LFS is a bad
> idea (it will create unnecessary work).  On my current build I
> removed /usr/bin/python and gimp found python2 without problems.
> Compare Arch where I think htey made the python3 -> python2 symlink
> years ago : they specify PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 ./configure
> https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/gimp/trunk/PKGBUILD
> 
> Is there anything in the book which uses python3 and looks for python
> but does not look for python3 ?

Some test scripts, for which we are using a sed.

I don't like python -> python3 symlink, either.  Maybe someone can submit patch
to upstream to improve their building system and avoid those sed?
-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry...@mengyan1223.wang>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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