- If this package can be used as a library and installs Python modules (*.so or *.py) into site-packages directories, then consider supporting installation for multiple Python versions. Please read section "Types of packages" in documentation [1] to decide if this package can support installation for multiple Python versions. - Ensure that the ebuilds do not use deprecated functions or variables. - Please check if Python 3 is supported by this package. You can temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python to properly test if this package supports Python 3. - If this package does not support Python 3: - Specify dependency on Python 2. You can use PYTHON_DEPEND helper variable, which should be set before inheriting of python eclass. Please read section "Specification of dependency on Python" in documentation [1]. - If this package cannot support installation for multiple versions of Python, then set active version of Python using python_set_active_version(). - Ensure that shebangs in installed scripts specify correct version of Python. If shebangs are too generic (e.g. '#!/usr/bin/python'), then you can use python_convert_shebangs() to convert shebangs. (Wrapper scripts generated by python_generate_wrapper_scripts() do not require any changes.) Please read section "Shebangs in installed scripts" in documentation [1]. - To ensure that changes applied to the ebuilds are sufficient, please temporarily set Python 3 as main active version of Python and test if this package can be properly installed and if it works at run time. Please see documentation [1] for more details. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml
Created attachment 263923 [details, diff] Fix to Python 2 With Python3 as the default USE="python" libgsf-1.14.19 fails to find Python2 and install the bindings: checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 3.1 checking for python platform... linux2 checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib64/python3.1/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib64/python3.1/site-packages checking for headers required to compile python extensions... File "<string>", line 1 import sys; print sys.prefix ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax File "<string>", line 1 import sys; print sys.exec_prefix ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax not found NO. Missing python headers Patch attached that fixes it for me.
Support for installation for multiple Python ABIs added in gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.19.
