buildprep on Debian

[Hal Murray]

> Same conceptual idea as python-is-python3, right?
> But just install python3-dev directly. 

Maybe, but there is something going on that I don't understand yet.

Here is the code in my buildprep:
        apt)
            $install build-essential                    # Build environment
            $install bison libssl-dev                   # build
            $install libcap-dev libseccomp-dev          # build
            $install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev       # optional build
            $install pps-tools
            $install python3-dev python-is-python3
            $install python-dev-is-python3
            ;;
Here is the output from ./buildprep -n (my working coy)
  apt-get install -y build-essential
  apt-get install -y bison libssl-dev
  apt-get install -y libcap-dev libseccomp-dev
  apt-get install -y libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev
  apt-get install -y pps-tools
  apt-get install -y python3-dev python-is-python3
  apt-get install -y python-dev-is-python3
  apt-get install -y python-dev

Somebody is adding that python-dev

Ahh.  I found this:
    # Prerequisites for the client Python tools: python extensions 
    case $installer in
        apt)
            $install "python${PYVERS}-dev"
            ;;
So PYVERS must be empty.
That's because python hasn't been installed yet so python --version 
doesn't work.

Mumble.  I'll try to fix it in the morning.

Do we care if buildprep works on python 2?




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