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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>,
	"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Has scallywag problems with requirements ?
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 03:32:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db3e23a7-a19f-48a0-5b9e-0ad77b7316e4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bc4e0c6-b429-4997-3377-b5930031257b@dronecode.org.uk>

On 15.04.2023 20:31, Jon Turney wrote:
> 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.

you are right. It worked locally on modified PATH.
I will modify the cygport.

> 
> 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?

the configure seems to not accept the

   --with-python=/usr/bin/python${v}

it continued to pick python3.9 also when I requested 3.8
I have however not checked the details of the configure.ac

Regards
Marco



  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-16  1:33 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
2023-04-16  1:32       ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2023-04-16 12:08         ` Marco Atzeri

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