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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 19 June 2010 18:06:58 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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

Did you miss the significance of this part?

"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."

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