After updating from python-2.4 to 2.5, I ran python-updater. Emerging failed at libopensync. During configure, it was finding python-2.4 still. Problem was symlink in /usr/local/bin was not updated to point to 2.5. Fixed symlink, emerge completes. While looking through other bugs, found out about app-admin/eselect-python, which was not installed. Found that curious. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Update from python-2.4 to python 2.5 2.emerge libopensync 3. Actual Results: Emerge fails at configure- reports python 2.4 installed, can not find python 2.4 libraries. Expected Results: Compiles against python 2.5 emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:16:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa arts bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dri dvd dvdread emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv isdnlog ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde ldap libnotify logitech-mouse mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznopango moznoroaming mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection samba scanner session sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1x" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
app-admin/eselect-python is used only by >=dev-lang/python-2.6. (In reply to comment #0) > Problem was symlink in /usr/local/bin was not updated to point to 2.5. > Fixed symlink, emerge completes. Ebuilds don't install anything to /usr/local. You shouldn't create any symlinks in /usr/local/bin.
Interesting. So, at some point something else placed the symlink there. Changed the link back to to 2.4, same problem. Removed altogether, no issues. I was experimenting with Ypops a while back, since there's also a 'smtpd.py' file in /usr/local/bin, I'm guessing it's responsible for the symlink, and that just happens to be the one configure found first during emerge.
The default Gentoo enviroment exports /usr/local/bin at the begining of PATH variable and making it programs/symlinks to be "prime" thus executed instead of those in /usr/sbin and /usr/bin. I suggest close this since it's not an eselect nor python bug.
