So my problem is getting worse. Compilation of the svn tree fails even earlier, and because of the same python issue, I guess (see below).
It seems I cannot remove python 3, since the Arch package management system depends on it. Do I have any alternatives? Is there anyone building lyx on the Arch distribution? Cheers, Stefano [stefano@polus lyx-devel]$ make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel' Making all in config make[2]: Entering directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/config' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/config' Making all in development make[2]: Entering directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/development' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/development' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/development' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/development' Making all in intl make[2]: Entering directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/intl' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/intl' Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/po' make lyx-2-svn.pot-update make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/po' sed -e '/^#/d' remove-potcdate.sin > t-remove-potcdate.sed mv t-remove-potcdate.sed remove-potcdate.sed LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL ; \ python ./lyx_pot.py -b .. -o qt4_l10n.pot -t qt4 ../src/frontends/qt4/ui/*.ui File "./lyx_pot.py", line 29 print "Path %s is not under top source directory" % path ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax make[3]: *** [qt4_l10n.pot] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/po' make[2]: *** [lyx-2-svn.pot] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/stefano/builds/lyx-2-svn/lyx-devel' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA