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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users