On 4/15/19 9:03 PM, Douglas R. Reno via lfs-dev wrote:
On 4/15/19 8:57 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote:
I am sure that there are reasons for not doing this but I've noticed,
as a result of Xen no longer needing Python 2, that there isn't a
bare `python` installed within LFS.
Start of the xen-devel thread detailing this is here:
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-04/msg00996.html
Should there be a note about how to create one, including a note
about Pythons 2 and 3 in the LFS Book, now that we have have
to have Python3 just to compile Glibc.
I believe that we did this because most applications still call
/usr/bin/python and expect it to be python2. You could do a symlink to
python3 as /usr/bin/python as a temporary solution (I have to use that
for 'htop', which I build at the end of LFS, and then I remove the
symlink to prevent issues with Python2's installation).
Generally, we also look towards Arch as a reference. Arch still has a
'python' equaling 'python2', at least the last time I checked, but it's
possible that it's changed since then.
Actually Arch's instance of python is p3. They have to jump through a
few hoops when p2 is required to build a package.
-- Bruce
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