On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 11:41:39AM +0000, Hazel Russman wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 11:14:58 +0100
> Pierre Labastie <pierre.labas...@neuf.fr> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I couldn't find an instruction in LFS to create this link. I suggest
> > > adding:
> > > Some programs expect to find /usr/bin/python. To satisfy them, create a
> > > symbolic link:
> > > ln -svf python3 /usr/bin/python
> > >
> >
> > I wouldn't recommend doing that: it could lead to execute python2 code with
> > python3, but many python2 scripts cannot be run with python3. I'm not sure
> > what to do with harfbuzz, but I guess Python2 should be in optional deps (to
> > run tests). In any case, the link above should be only temporary for running
> > harfbuz tests. Another possibility is to issue:
> > ---
> > find . -name \*.py | xargs sed -i 's/env python/&3/'
> > ---
> >
> > Pierre
> > --
> Oops! I forgot that /usr/bin/python is often a link to python2. Your
> find-and-edit is a neater solution than making a temporary symlink and then
> deleting it. Maybe it could be added to harfbuzz and to any other packages
> that turn out to throw this problem. I suspect that with python3 now
> compulsory, most people will not want to install python2 just for a few
> checks.
I admire your optimism that you will be able to build (what I assume
is) a desktop system without python2.
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