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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark seems to require Python 3.4 or better now ...

From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:52:03 -0800
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:38 PM Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:11 PM Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Like Pascal said, clearing PYTHON_EXECUTABLE from your CMakeCache.txt
> > was sufficient (you do not have to wipe the full build directory). The
> > default /usr/bin/python interpreter is Python 2.7, but CMake will now
> > search for python3 first and use that if it is new enough.
>
> Why doesn't it fall back to 2.7?
>
> I didn't have Python 3.x on that VM, but the cmake step should not
> fail if it cannot find Python 3.x when 2.7 is acceptable.
>
> However, it kept telling me that 2.7.5 was not acceptable.

Strange.

CMakeLists.txt says, pretty adamantly:

set(PythonInterp_OPTIONS "3.4" REQUIRED)

And it will not let go of that ... and changing it to 2.7 produces
something that still seems to build.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂?唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)