Bug 380847 – sys-apps/seabios-0.6.3_pre20010817 - emerge fails if Python 3 is default interpreter

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Mayo 2011-08-27 13:45:30 UTC]

With collision-protect and app-emulation/qemu-kvm-0.15.0 installed:

 * package sys-apps/seabios-0.6.3_pre20010817 NOT merged
 * 
 * Detected file collision(s):
 * 
 * 	/usr/share/qemu/bios.bin
 *

To fix this I changed to:
newins out/bios.bin seabios.bin



With Python3 as the default interpreter:

  Building ld scripts (version "0.6.3_pre20010817_pre8e301472e324b6d6496d8b4ffc66863e99d7a505")
  File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 75
    print "Error: Fixed section %s has non-zero alignment (%d)" % (
                                                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [out/romlayout16.lds] Error 1
 * ERROR: sys-apps/seabios-0.6.3_pre20010817 failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed

Adding:
pkg_setup() {
	python_set_active_version 2
}

did fix this for me but meant dropping the EAPI to 3 to allow inherit python.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-08-27 15:18:31 UTC]

Please post your `emerge --info' output too. Also tell us what overlay this ebuild is from.

[Comment 2 Chris Mayo 2011-08-27 15:41:48 UTC]

It's in the main tree.

What extra information is needed? One is a simple file overlap and for the other there is enough quoted below to show a print without brackets in the Python code.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-08-27 18:05:01 UTC]

Ah, it's a recent addition to the tree.

[Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2011-08-29 14:51:10 UTC]

In the process of shifting qemu-jvm over to using our own built SeaBIOS. Blockers should be in place now.

[Comment 5 Chris Mayo 2011-10-22 11:37:39 UTC]

Now installed as:
/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin

[Comment 6 Chris Mayo 2011-10-23 12:05:43 UTC]

Closed in favour of Bug 388137 which is only about the Python issue.