Re: Zenmap build not using Python 2.X?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 01:15:25AM -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have an Arch Linux system with the latest Python 3:
>
> $ python --version
> Python 3.2.2
>
>
> When Zenmap tries to do setup I get this error:
>
> cd zenmap && /usr/bin/python setup.py build
>   File "setup.py", line 307
>     mode = ((os.stat(uninstaller_filename)[ST_MODE]) | 0555) & 07777
>                                                           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid token
> make[1]: *** [build-zenmap] Error 1
>
> I suspect that configure isn't looking for the proper version of
> Python which is I think 2.7:
>
> $ python2.7 --version
> Python 2.7.2

The problem is that the AM_PATH_PYTHON Autoconf macro allows you to
specify a minimum but not a maximum version. The best way to work around
this is to define PYTHON when you configure.

PYTHON=python2.7 ./configure

David Fifield
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