On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:10:02 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12:

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>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)?

You need to run python-updater so that there are python modules for all
packages that are compatible with both releases of Python.  This is
because any such package will attempt to build modules for both Python
interpreters, even though you are currently using only 2.6.

>To update to python 3.1..but setuptools failed while compiling 
>against python 3.1

Just run python-updater first, as this will take care of any
build-time dependencies of setuptools. Then try to emerge your general
updates, which should build setuptools correctly.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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