I might have explicitly deleted /usr/bin/python after I installed
/usr/local/bin/python. Maybe in the past my PATH had /usr/bin
before /usr/local/bin.  Anyway, everything is working great
for me now.  Sorry to create issues.

Alec

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:39:01PM -0400, Daniel Macks wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:39:42 -0700, Alexander Hansen  
> <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/29/12 6:15 PM, E. Alec Johnson wrote:
>> > Thanks so much for your help, Dr. Hansen!
>> >
>> > Here is the line I should have given you:
>> >
>> >> 001ec20e5e44:~ evanjohnson$ fink update gtk-doc
>> > [...]
>> >> checking whether /usr/bin/python version>= 2.3... configure: error: 
>> too old
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > which, now that I know to ignore the stuff about VirtPackage.pm,
>> > is the first error message. >
>> > After executing
>> >
>> >> 001ec20e5e44:~ evanjohnson$ fink update python
>> > I found that the problem persisted (that is, /usr/bin/python
>> > still did not actually exist),
>> No surprise there.  Fink doesn't install in /usr. 
>
> But OS X does, and I'm fairly sure it's supplied a /usr/bin/python since 
> 10.4 if not earlier. 
>
> dan
>
>  --
> Daniel Macks
> dma...@netspace.org

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