On 6 January 2013 07:52, Erik Nørgaard <norga...@locolomo.org> wrote: > On 05/01/2013 19:17, Erik Nørgaard wrote: >> >> >> lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=262144 /bin/sh ./buildconf >> buildconf: checking installation... >> buildconf: python not found. >> You need python installed >> to build APR from SVN. >> *** [run-autotools] Error code 1 > > > I tried to debug a bit more on this, seems that buildconf calls a script > build/PrintPath which returns the path of a program, i.e.: > > # ./PrintPath perl > /usr/bin/perl > > But when called by buildconf with parameter "python" it returns nothing, > there is no "python" binary but a python2.6 > > # ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.6 /usr/local/bin/python > > solves the problem, but is it common to create a link for python as with > perl? Is that a patch or a hack? > > Thanks, Erik
Hmm, a bland, un-monkey-ed-with install of python27 here: % ls -l /usr/local/bin/python* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python -> python2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python-config -> python2-conf ig lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python-shared -> python-share d2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python-shared-config -> pytho n-shared2-config lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python-shared2 -> python-shar ed2.7 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python-shared2-config -> pyth on-shared2.7-config -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4656 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python-shared2.7 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1659 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python-shared2.7-config lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python2 -> python2.7 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python2-config -> python2.7-c onfig -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1484336 Dec 27 10:49 /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1652 Dec 27 10:50 /usr/local/bin/python2.7-config Do you have something funny set in /etc/make.conf or within your python options? -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"