Bug 316945 – sys-devel/gdb-7.2: requires python-2*

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-04-24 18:22:31 UTC]

- 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

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2010-09-11 16:54:57 UTC]

gdb doesnt install any .py files.  it merely links against it.

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-11 19:40:33 UTC]

sys-devel/gdb-7.2 fails to build when Python 3.* is set as main active version of Python.

[Comment 3 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-11 19:47:32 UTC]

Created attachment 246901 [details]
gdb-7.2:20100911-194437.log

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2010-09-12 03:24:41 UTC]

then post a patch where gdb only requires python-2 in the ebuild.  or i can simply change the depend to =dev-lang/python-2*.

the current python.eclass wrongly requires app-admin/eselect-python unconditionally, so inheriting that isnt an option.

[Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-09-12 11:40:04 UTC]

Created attachment 246959 [details, diff]
gdb-7.2.ebuild.patch

sys-devel/gdb-7.2 is misported to EAPI="3". econf() is called twice.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2010-09-14 00:35:13 UTC]

thanks, that looks good to me

http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gdb/gdb-7.2.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3