On Saturday 19 June 2010 18:06:58 [email protected] wrote: > David W Noon <[email protected]> [10-06-19 18:00]: > > On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:00:02 +0200, [email protected] wrote about Re: > > > > [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12: > > >walt <[email protected]> [10-06-19 16:48]: > > [snip] > > > > >> Have you set eselect python to use python-3 instead of python-2? If > > >> so, > > >> try setting it back to python-2. > > > > > >No, python 2.6 ist set according to the output of > > > > > > eselect python list > > > > > >python 3.1 is installed but not selected. > > > > > >What else can produce this compilation error? > > > > Have you run python-updater? > > > > When new packages have Python components, they will build both 2.6 and > > 3.1 modules if possible. This means that their dependencies also need > > to have both 2.6 and 3.1 modules. You achieve this by running > > python-updater; this can take several hours. > > Hi Dave, > > wait...hopefully I understand this correctly, before I start to screw > up my newly installed system... > > State 1 right after installing Gentoo: Pyton2.6 selected, installed > and up. > State 2 some days later while upateing python3.1 was offered but > should *not* eselect python 3.1 since some older package are still > not updated to work correctly with 3.1 > State 3 setuptools seems to try to compile against 3.1 and failed. > > Now I should run python-updater to ... (scratching my head)? > To update to python 3.1..but setuptools failed while compiling > against python 3.1 > > It seems I myself feel a little screwed up,,, ;) > > ? > > Best regards, > mcc
Did you miss the significance of this part? "This means that their dependencies also need to have both 2.6 and 3.1 modules. You achieve this by running python-updater; this can take several hours." -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
