Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error:

$ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86  File "/home/papul/android-x86/.repo/repo/main.py", line 149      except DownloadError, e:                          ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I think the problem is with python2. I remember doing this, it was a problem with python. I think it wanted

On 29 January 2012 12:12, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@gmail.com> wrote: python2 but it found python3, something like that. I couldn't really understand the script, it was python inside bash so instead of spending years trying to fix it I moved /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python.bak and copied /usr/bin/python2 to /usr/bin/python. This is a (really) -bad- solution, if you try it remember to restore the files or something will surely go wrong.

[1] http://hyper-choi.blogspot.com/2012/01/andorid-x86-ics-on-qemu.html -- Madhurya Kakati

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On 29 January 2012 12:33, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@gmail.com> wrote:

On 01/29/12 at 12:28pm, Thanasis Georgiou wrote:

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I remember doing this, it was a problem with python. I think it wanted python2 but it found python3, something like that. I couldn't really understand the script, it was python inside bash so instead of spending years trying to fix it I moved /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python.bak and copied /usr/bin/python2 to /usr/bin/python. This is a (really) -bad- solution, if you try it remember to restore the files or something will surely go wrong.

Look at the command carefully. I used python2. That means it is running python 2.7.2. Right now I am downloading python2.6 from AUR. Hope that helps. -- Madhurya Kakati

Yes but check, for example, line 23 in the repo script. It clearly runs 'python' and not 'python2' or 'python3' and since 'python' stands for 'python3' in Archlinux so I think that's the problem. -- Thanasis Georgiou

2012/1/29 Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@gmail.com>:

Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error:

$ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86  File "/home/papul/android-x86/.repo/repo/main.py", line 149      except DownloadError, e:                          ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I think the problem is with python2.

Hi, I had the same problem with ChromiumOS, the problem is indeed that the scripts are exec'ing "python" without knowing that it’s python3 (and of course it occurs even if you run python2 in the first place) The solution I found is the following : mkdir /tmp/python2 ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /tmp/python2/python export PATH=/tmp/python2:$PATH This will make "python" refer to python3, but only for the current shell. Guillaume

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 04:33:54PM +0000, Clive Cooper wrote:

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This will make "python" refer to python3, but only for the current shell. If it is of any interest I had a similar problem when compiling alsalib. I just uninstalled python3. Done the compiling and then reinstalled python3. It worked for me. Just another option... maybe.

heya Another way which usually works for me is recursively grepping and sed-replace any occurrence of the "python" calls in the pkgbuild, which works fine, as python is an interpreted language. 0.02CHF, maybe I'm not helping much. cheers! mar77i