On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Brian Harring <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:28:59AM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Regarding your /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/sphinx-build example: >> invoking python on a binary (or a symlink to a binary) isn't going to >> work at all. So I don't see how you've solved that issue. > > Kindly provide reasoning/justification for such a claim in the future- > saves a round of email ping/ponging, and saves me getting pissy > towards people if they persist in it. :) > > Lecture aside, "nuh uh, it does work!" is appropriate. I already > hacked up a prototype locally that works fine and does this via an > env passing hack- w/ what was proposed, this can be done w/out those > hacks, and would be faster. >
When you invoke a command like: /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/somebinary The python3.2 program assumes somebinary is a python script and tries to parse it. Since somebinary is actually an ELF object, python bombs out immediately. Am I missing something fundamental here?
