Thank you for your help. I think that the Gnome 3.4 Live under VirtualBox option will suit me best, because I do not build much from source, rather from Arch repos, where all the programs have been also defaulted to Python 3, so the VirtualBox option is just safer for me. I am still waiting for an answer to my 2 other questions, though. And I still hope to get answer from you. Greetings, ----------------------------------------- Piotr Żurek [email protected]
2012/4/3 William Ting <[email protected]> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Phitherek_ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 3. In your GSoC info page you say, that I should fix some minor bug > before > > applying. I planned to try it, but I could not build Epiphany with > JHBuild. > > The main problem is, that I use Arch Linux, where since some time ago the > > default version of Python is Python 3 (and this is "python"), and Python > 2 > > is executed by "python2". The buildscripts are written in Python 2, but > they > > all have "python" and not "python2" in the #!. This is, however, kind of > > easy to fix. I got stuck when I tried to build glib and I had to remove > more > > and more lines in the script to work - in the end that had not worked > > anyway. It was something with "parser.py". Could you help me also with > that? > > ArchLinux defaults to Python 3. This causes a problem with older > Python programs since they link to the Python 3 interpreter when > they're expecting a Python 2 interpreter. Newer scripts should be > using `#!/usr/bin/env python2` (or python3) instead of `#!/usr/bin/env > python`. > > Since pretty much all new Python 3 programs refer to the python3 > interpreter explicitly, you can safely default your system back to > Python 2. In other words: > > sudo rm -v /usr/bin/python > sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python > > This is a much easier alternative than modifying all build scripts to > use the Python 2 interpreter. > > - William Ting >
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