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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Building when both python versions 2 and 3 are present

From: Daryl Yu <janyu86@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:33:31 +0800
scratch that.

i just realized how silly i sound.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Daryl Yu <janyu86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  File "../../tools/ncp2222.py", line 207
>>    if highest_var > global_highest_var:
>>                                       ^
>> TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation.
>>
>
> I opened tools/ncp2222.py and it turns out that that line and the one
> after it uses spaces instead of tabs unlike the other lines for that
> class.
>
> Line 261 is also tricky as it has both spaces and tabs.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:49 AM, ptchinster <ptchinster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Here is my train of thought on the building. My setup: python2 AND
>> python (which is python 3.2), located in /usr/bin/
>> Builds are done by way of "PKGBUILDs" which contain functions called
>> "build" that do the compiling.
>>
>> For brevities sake i DLed the source from the repo just once.
>>
>> The first "vanilla" attempt is using just the autogen.sh and configure commands
>> http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/356159/
>>
>> It fails, as the python binary is python 3. Adding the quick sed hack
>> to use python2 binary in the PKGBUILD yields some results:
>> http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/356165/
>>
>> Yet still fails at:
>>
>>  File "../../tools/ncp2222.py", line 207
>>    if highest_var > global_highest_var:
>>                                       ^
>> TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation.
>>
>> I remove the python2 package, and with only python 3 installed repeat
>> the process.
>> http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/356168/
>>
>> Fails with that same error in autogen that was fixed by switching over
>> to the python2 binary.
>>
>> -ptchinster
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:30 PM, ptchinster <ptchinster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am the maintainer for the svn version of wireshark in the Arch Linux
>>> User Repo (AUR). Arch has both python version 2 and 3 in its main
>>> repos (package 'python' is v3 and package 'python2' is v2, as many
>>> packages still require version 2).
>>>
>>> When a system only has python2 installed i can easily build wireshark.
>>> However, if python (v3) is also installed, the build will fail as it
>>> attempts to use the /usr/bin/python interpreter, which is of course v3
>>> of python.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to *force* the location of python to be
>>> /usr/bin/python2 ? I've tried several different ways with configure's
>>> --with-python flag but have been unsuccessful so far.
>>>
>>> -ptchinster
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." --Carl Sagan
>>> "Keep on rockin' in the free world." -- Neil Young
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> "Keep on rockin' in the free world." -- Neil Young
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