Bug 555714 – app-eselect/eselect-python - does not create pythonX-config symlinks

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jason Zaman 2015-07-23 18:37:15 UTC]

I do not have the pythonX-config symlink on my machine. PEP0394 says it should be a symlink to pythonX.Y-config similar to how python/python3/python3.4 is handled.

# ls -1 /usr/bin/python*
/usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python-config
/usr/bin/python-config-2.7
/usr/bin/python-config-3.4
/usr/bin/python-wrapper
/usr/bin/python2
/usr/bin/python2.7
/usr/bin/python2.7-config
/usr/bin/python3
/usr/bin/python3.4
/usr/bin/python3.4-config

Packages installed:
app-eselect/eselect-python-20111108
dev-lang/python-2.7.9-r1
dev-lang/python-3.4.1
dev-lang/python-exec-2.0.1-r1

[Comment 1 Jason Zaman 2015-07-29 05:46:45 UTC]

Created attachment 407858 [details, diff]
0001-Add-PythonX-config-symlink.patch

Proposed patch. This just adds a symlink to pythonX.Y-config. It looks correct on my local machine.

My only reservation is that python-config (with no version) is a bash wrapper and I am not sure why or if it effects this.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2016-02-06 09:16:32 UTC]

This is fixed since 20151117-r2. The new versions create python-exec wrappers for pythonX-config.