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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>
Cc: gentoo-bsd@l.g.o, bsd@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-bsd] New Gentoo/FreeBSD 9.0 stages for x86 and amd64
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 15:06:01
Message-Id: 20120509081808.4fa69fa1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-bsd] New Gentoo/FreeBSD 9.0 stages for x86 and amd64 by Richard Yao
1 On Wed, 9 May 2012 01:22:50 -0400
2 Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
3
4 > On 05/08/12 08:49, Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Some updates:
7 > > - python3 is set as the default interpreter, remember to switch it
8 > > to python2 or you might run into problems; anybody knows how did
9 > > they fix this for gentoo linux when python3 reached stable ?
10 > > - creating pie executables is broken: they'll get textrels on x86
11 > > and will simply not link on amd64; will send a patch to gcc fixing
12 > > this.
13 > >
14 > > A.
15 > >
16 >
17 > Why is python3 the default interpreter if people might run into
18 > problems because of it?
19 >
20
21 probably because it gets built and installed before python2 and python
22 ebuilds made it the default back then...