Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > Sure - the initial premise of this thread [as I understood] was: > /usr/bin/python is python2. On python3 only installs - there is no > /usr/bin/python (for ex: jedbrown/mpich-ccache docker file) - so we need to > fix this issue in configure. > > I'm guessing that most installs will have /usr/bin/python as python2 or > python3 - so missing /usr/bin/python is a smaller problem. Its not clear to > me why this is missing in jedbrown/mpich-ccache - and how many OSes or distro > will default to this mode.
On Debian and Ubuntu, /usr/bin/python is part of python2; it isn't created if you `apt install python3`.
