INSTALL.adoc

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:52:30 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> > +Alternatively you can link your python3 to python.  
> > +`ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python`  
> 
> That "to" looks backwards to me.  I expect:
>     link python to your python3

python3 exists, python does not.  So you create python by linking
it to python3.  As Fred says: like cp.

How about instead:

Alternatively, you can create a link to you python3, called python.
Like so:

ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python  

> That command line doesn't work on FreeBSD or NetBSD

Yeah, *BSD are weird.  tell me how you do it, and I'll add that
as well.


> I have fixed buildprep to include the package that sets up "python"
> That's on Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, and Alpine Linux.

Then INSTALL.adoc should point to that.

> buildprep has some python2 cruft.  I ignored it.
> Should we announce that it no longer works for python 2 and clean it
> up a bit?

I never used it.  Never worked for Gentoo.

> Should we fix waf install to do the magic for SELinux?

Not everyone uses SELinux.  Linus says he hates SELinux.  Doing it for
all distributiuons would be a can of worms.  I'll stay away from that
subject.

RGDS
GARY
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