[mythtv-users] Gentoo install problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Saul,

Thursday, September 10, 2015, 12:59:20 AM, you wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:27:19 +0200
> Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hoi Saul,
>> 
>> 
>> > Below is what I get. Regardless whether system python is set to 2.7
>> > or 3.4. Will install git and see how much that helps.

>> Lets explain a bit better. 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 can all three be installed
>> together on a Gentoo system. They are different slots. Next to the
>> slots you have python2 and python3 Until the end of July 3.3 was the
>> default for python3. On July 25th they switched on Gentoo to 3.4. So
>> if you install a Gentoo system with a CD from after that date,
>> possibly python 3.3 is no longer installed by default. My assumption
>> is that that python package (or at least the setup) doesn't like 3.4,
>> which isn't a problem if you have installed both, probably even if the
>> python3 default is set to 3.4.
>> So my suggestion was to emerge python3.3 if not installed and to set
>> python3 to 3.3 and then see if the error still occurs. If it now works
>> OK, you should file a bug at Gentoo, so they can change the
>> dependencies.

> Actually, here's the beginning of ebuild:

> # Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> # $Id$

> EAPI=5

> PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )

I know most if not all of Myth python bindings are python 2. But I'm
just suggesting a possibility. My Gentoo systems are all from before
that date and I haven't seen any problems like this.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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