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

[ptchinster <ptchinster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
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