On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Jed Brown wrote: > 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`.
Ok - that a large userbase. So when python2 deprecated in debian - there won't be /usr/bin/python anymore? Satish
