Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> [10-06-19 18:00]:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:00:02 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12:
> 
> >walt <w41ter@gmail.com> [10-06-19 16:48]:
> [snip]
> >> Have you set eselect python to use python-3 instead of python-2?  If 
> >> so,
> >> try setting it back to python-2.
> >
> >No, python 2.6 ist set according to the output of 
> >
> >    eselect python list
> >
> >python 3.1 is installed but not selected.
> >
> >What else can produce this compilation error?
> 
> Have you run python-updater?
> 
> When new packages have Python components, they will build both 2.6 and
> 3.1 modules if possible.  This means that their dependencies also need
> to have both 2.6 and 3.1 modules.  You achieve this by running
> python-updater; this can take several hours.
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave  [RLU #314465]
> ======================================================================
> dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon)
> ======================================================================


Hi Dave,

wait...hopefully I understand this correctly, before I start to screw
up my newly installed system...

State 1 right after installing Gentoo: Pyton2.6 selected, installed
and up.
State 2 some days later while upateing python3.1 was offered but
should *not* eselect python 3.1 since some older package are still
not updated to work correctly with 3.1
State 3 setuptools seems to try to compile against 3.1 and failed.

Now I should run python-updater to ... (scratching my head)? 
To update to python 3.1..but setuptools failed while compiling 
against python 3.1

It seems I myself feel a little screwed up,,, ;)

?

Best regards,
mcc