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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>,
	"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Has scallywag problems with requirements ?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 19:31:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bc4e0c6-b429-4997-3377-b5930031257b@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7c11fe9-4e66-0830-2c05-85aa8c93465f@dronecode.org.uk>

On 15/04/2023 19:27, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 15/04/2023 17:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 15.04.2023 18:34, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> building libxml2
>>>
>>> Jobs 5790
>>> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/4708605404
>>>
>>> I see
>>>
>>> /cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/libxml2/libxml2.cygport: line 72: 
>>> alternatives: command not found
> 
> I don't understand how this cygport is supposed to work.
> 
> It simply runs 'alternatives', but being installed as 
> /usr/sbin/alternatives, it's not on the path.

Also, if the configure script supports it, wouldn't it be better to set 
the PYTHON env var, or do --with-python=/usr/bin/python${v} than 
fiddling with alternatives?


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-15 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-15 16:34 Marco Atzeri
2023-04-15 16:42 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-04-15 18:27   ` Jon Turney
2023-04-15 18:31     ` Jon Turney [this message]
2023-04-16  1:32       ` Marco Atzeri
2023-04-16 12:08         ` Marco Atzeri

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