Re: [Bug-wget] python3

[Ángel González]

On 18/12/14 09:16, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
> wget-1.16.1 introduced a change wrt. python.  Just upgrading the port
> lead to the following failure:
>
> checking whether /usr/local/bin/python3.4 version is>= 3.0... no
> configure: error: Python interpreter is too old
> *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2725 
> '/usr/ports/pobj/wget-1.16.1/.configure_done': @for d in /usr/ports/pobj/wge...)
> *** Error 1 in /usr/ports/net/wget 
> (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2473 'all')
>
> This is because when python 3 support is requested in our ports
> framework, the following values are set in the ./configure script
> environment:
>
>    PYTHON="/usr/local/bin/python3.4"
>    ac_cv_prog_PYTHON="/usr/local/bin/python3.4"
>    ac_cv_path_PYTHON="/usr/local/bin/python3.4"
No. That's not your ports fault (well, unless you are naming python 2.7

"python3.4" ;) )


> I "fixed" this by:
> 1. forcing PYTHON to the empty string, to avoid the error message
> 2. setting am_cv_pathless_PYTHON so that tests can still pass (after
>     installation of python3 of course)
>
>    
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/wget/Makefile.diff?r1=1.65&r2=1.66
>
> I thought I'd let you know about this, even though I'm not sure if there
> is a reasonable way to "solve" this issue. I feel that AM_PATH_PYTHON is
> doing the right thing.
I don't know which check is used there by wget, but it's broken.

> BTW, python3.4 could be added to _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST.