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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:09:00
Message-Id: 4C1D0CAE.5020404@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12 by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Saturday 19 June 2010 18:06:58 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 >
4 >> David W Noon<dwnoon@××××××××.com> [10-06-19 18:00]:
5 >>
6 >>> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:00:02 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote about Re:
7 >>>
8 >>> [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12:
9 >>>
10 >>>> walt<w41ter@×××××.com> [10-06-19 16:48]:
11 >>>>
12 >>> [snip]
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>>>> Have you set eselect python to use python-3 instead of python-2? If
16 >>>>> so,
17 >>>>> try setting it back to python-2.
18 >>>>>
19 >>>> No, python 2.6 ist set according to the output of
20 >>>>
21 >>>> eselect python list
22 >>>>
23 >>>> python 3.1 is installed but not selected.
24 >>>>
25 >>>> What else can produce this compilation error?
26 >>>>
27 >>> Have you run python-updater?
28 >>>
29 >>> When new packages have Python components, they will build both 2.6 and
30 >>> 3.1 modules if possible. This means that their dependencies also need
31 >>> to have both 2.6 and 3.1 modules. You achieve this by running
32 >>> python-updater; this can take several hours.
33 >>>
34 >> Hi Dave,
35 >>
36 >> wait...hopefully I understand this correctly, before I start to screw
37 >> up my newly installed system...
38 >>
39 >> State 1 right after installing Gentoo: Pyton2.6 selected, installed
40 >> and up.
41 >> State 2 some days later while upateing python3.1 was offered but
42 >> should *not* eselect python 3.1 since some older package are still
43 >> not updated to work correctly with 3.1
44 >> State 3 setuptools seems to try to compile against 3.1 and failed.
45 >>
46 >> Now I should run python-updater to ... (scratching my head)?
47 >> To update to python 3.1..but setuptools failed while compiling
48 >> against python 3.1
49 >>
50 >> It seems I myself feel a little screwed up,,, ;)
51 >>
52 >> ?
53 >>
54 >> Best regards,
55 >> mcc
56 >>
57 > Did you miss the significance of this part?
58 >
59 > "This means that their dependencies also need to have both 2.6 and 3.1
60 > modules. You achieve this by running python-updater; this can take several
61 > hours."
62 >
63 >
64
65 Or if he doesn't really need python 3, he can just mask the thing until
66 he does need it. Of course, he may have to run python-updater again or
67 rebuild the same packages again to get them to not use python 3.
68
69 Yep, making this stable hasn't confused anyone yet. o_O
70
71 Dale
72
73 :-) :-)

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