On 23 Mar 2017, at 10:18, Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:21:19PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
as python2 will disappear sooner or later, I tried to replace all python2 references in libosmocore by the generic "python" [1]. Unfortunately the build fails on FreeBSD[2]. Google didn't want to explain me why there might be /usr/bin/python2 but no /usr/bin/python, so do you have any idea what is wrong here?
I don't know about FreeBSD policy on this, but those FreeBSD systems that I work with alwys "only" had a python2 and/or python3 executable and not a genric "python" one, which breaks a lot of scripts and requires manual editing :/
I guess it's worth asking some FreeBSD list/forum about this, if it's not a FAQ.
We can install the "python" package that adds a symlink from python2 to python. My main issues with this approach is:
* Some of our scripts don't work with python3 * Python2.7 will be around for a long time (and was recently forked)
So when the build breakage came up I preferred to be honest and say it is a python2 script.
holger