[Sugar-devel] sugar-build on archlinux without broot

[S. Daniel Francis]

All Arch Linux users I met usually solve this problem when developing
by using virtualenv.

2014-03-09 20:54 GMT-03:00 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
> On 10 March 2014 00:46, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10 March 2014 00:07, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Then issues ocurred with gwebsockets. It persistently tried to use
>>>> python3.3, my system's default, instead of python2.7. Finally I found the
>>>> culprit, in
>>>> ./out/sandbox/install/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osbuild/build.py I
>>>> replaced in line 190 one instance of "python" for "python2.7" and it worked
>>>> after that.
>>>>
>>>> Finally when building sugar-base I had to set up the environment
>>>> variable PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7 in order for it to build.
>>>> Also, when building sugar, I had to manually create the directory
>>>> "./out/install/etc/gconf/" or it would fail to install
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe you can solve this issues just creating symlinks like in fedora:
>>>
>>> [gonzalo at localhost develop-activity]$ ls -l /bin/python
>>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jan  9  2013 /bin/python -> python2
>>>
>>> [gonzalo at localhost develop-activity]$ ls -l /bin/python2
>>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan  9  2013 /bin/python2 -> python2.7
>>>
>>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> I think archlinux has those symlinks already, but it also has "python"
>> which is reallly python 3.
>> Now honestly I think that's a very bad decision archlinux made (and the
>> reason I'm not using it anymore, fwiw, it's a real pain if you are compiling
>> stuff a lot).
>> But it is compatible with best practices suggested by the python
>> documentation. So I think we should follow those practices in sugar-base
>> (i.e. explicitly require python2), which will take care of this issue. We
>> are already doing that in the gtk3 modules.
>
>
> Oh missed the /bin/python -> python2 suggestion. That would break archlinux
> stuff which assumes python is python3.
>
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