Anybody using the old waf?
Hal Murray
halmurray at sonic.net
Fri Mar 28 18:42:52 UTC 2025
>> On FreeBSD, ./buildprep -n says:
>> pkg install bison python3
>> ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python
>> pkg install ca_root_nss
>> I think the ln step is bogus. So I'll remove it.
> What makes you think it's bogus? Aside from whether it's best to point
> to 'python3' or the target of 'python3', the 'python' symlink is what
> one is supposed to have to allow unversioned shebangs to work (not to
> mention users who simply want to type 'python').
"bogus" was a poor choice of words. How about "unnecessary"?
It's not needed because installing python3 sets it up.
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