On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 03:19, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > ...and has been for a number of years. Richard
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