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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:34:39
Message-Id: 4E2B3DF7.6060101@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates by walt
1 walt wrote:
2 > This will affect (I think) only ~arch users.
3 >
4 > If you are running the new linux kernel version 3.0, you will
5 > find that today's update of python will fail with the error
6 > "plat-linux2 not found".
7 >
8 > That's because the python configure scripts will detect the
9 > version 3 kernel and will try to use "plat-linux3" instead of
10 > "plat-linux2".
11 >
12 > To finish today's update of python2 and python3, just boot
13 > with any kernel-2.6.x and repeat the python update.
14 >
15 >
16 >
17
18 Did you by chance file a roach report? If so, number or link please.
19
20 Sounds like 2.6.40 may have been a better idea. lol
21
22 Dale
23
24 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>