Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3

[Patrick McCarty]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:17 AM, John Mandereau
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 18/10/2010 alle 09.02 -0700, Patrick McCarty ha scritto:
>> Yes, but unfortunately, LilyPond needs special sed treatment, since
>> many substitutions are made *after* configure time.  I will need to
>> file a bug report...
>>
>> Specifically, I am looking for a way to make life easier when building
>> LilyPond without package management (instead of running a sed script
>> over all the python scripts every time I need to use them).
>>
>> A simple change to stepmake/aclocal.m4 would ease the process, but I
>> think I'll keep this as a local patch for a while...
>
> I don't understand the issue; can't you just set PYTHON=python2 when
> calling configure, and in case you need some scripts in auxiliar call
> them by prepending python2 instead of relying on the shebang?

Thanks!  I didn't think of doing this...

-Patrick