Re: [gpsd-dev] report on my build nits

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Bernd!

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:26:12 +0200
Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 9/21/19 3:23 AM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> >> I need to set PYTHON because I have no program named "python".
> >> Despite differing with PEPfoo, my system views it as necessary for
> >> soundness to bind each python-using program to a specific python
> >> version at build/install time, rather than letting it pick up some
> >> possibly-different python at run time.  Not going to get resolved,
> >>  
> > 
> > Yeah, little gpsd can do about broken distros that do not follow
> > upstream preferences.  
> 
> Thats not the only problem here.
> we need to be able to build for all supported python versions in a
> distribution, so we need to be able to choose the python interpreter.

Easy.  Use the "target_python=python3.7" scons config option.

RGDS
GARY
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