[Samba] Samba4 with python2.7 and python3

[Michael Wood]

Hi

I've copied this message to samba-technical where issues like this
with Samba 4 should be discussed while it is still in alpha.

On 12 January 2011 01:23, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Arch Linux (a rolling release distro) has updated to python3 a while
> back. python2 is still installed in parallel, but part of the
> ramifications of this move is the following:-0
> 1. /usr/bin/python points to /usr/bin/python3 instead of /usr/bin/python2
> 2. /usr/bin/python-config points to /usr/bin/python3-config instead of
> /usr/bin/python2-config
>
> I'm having problems with make for samba4 (am installing it to be able
> to install openchange->evolution-mapi. Initial problems were simply
> that various scripts don't reference the PYTHON env variable, so I ran
> a sed as follows:-
>  sed -i -e "s|/usr/bin/env python$|/usr/bin/env python2|" \
>         -e "s|python-config|python2-config|" \
>         -e "s|bin/python|bin/python2|" \
>    $(find ${samba-4.0.0alpha13 -type f)
>
> This gets me all the way past configure, but now I have this error:-
>
> 'configure' finished successfully (29.915s)
> WAF_MAKE=1 ../buildtools/bin/waf build
> Waf: Entering directory
> `/var/abs/local/aur/samba4/src/samba-4.0.0alpha13/source4/bin'
> Checking project rules ...
> Project rules pass
> Waf: Leaving directory
> `/var/abs/local/aur/samba4/src/samba-4.0.0alpha13/source4/bin'
> find_or_declare found a source file where a build file was expected
> 'lib/Parse/Pidl/IDL.pm'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>    Aborting...

I can't find where that message is printed.

> Confusingly, replacing /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python-config with
> symlinks to the python2 equivalent works fine (compiles completely)
> but is quite a hackish way to solving it. Would appreciate advise.
> Thank you all.

-- 
Michael Wood <eisotrot at gmail.com>