[aur-general] Problem with python versions when building iojs package

[Alexandre Ferrando]

On 5 May 2015 at 18:35, Maurizio D'Addona <mauritiusdadd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/05/2015 15:58, Alexandre Ferrando wrote:
> > Hello fellow Arch users, and good whatever time of the day is in your
> time
> > zone.
> >
> > I'm currently maintaining the iojs package which just hit 2.0.0 and for
> > some reason it's causing a bit of trouble with python versions.
> >
> > The package was able to build as a copy and adapt from the nodejs package
> > from the repos, until 1.8.1, but now it doesn't build because what I
> think
> > is some kind of python version mismatch [ 0 ], but I don't know python.
> >
> > I've been looking at the changelog from the iojs project but nothing of
> > what I've seen for now seems to suggest a change that could cause this
> and
> > I'm totally lost.
> >
> > Problem is, my scripting and PKGBUILD skills are a little rusty and I
> don't
> > know exactly how to address this, as I've been for a couple of hours with
> > no success.
> >
> > You'll find the PKGBUILD at [ 1 ]
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > [ 0 ] : http://sprunge.us/eMeO
> > [ 1 ] : http://sprunge.us/CMJL
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> the problem seems to be in this two files:
>
> src/iojs-v2.0.0/deps/v8/build/toolchain.gypi - line 41
> vim src/iojs-v2.0.0/tools/gyp/gyp - line 8
>
> You may want to add the following expressions to the sed invocation
> inside the prepare function.
>
>     -e 's_^\( *exec \+\)python\( \+.*\)$_\1python2\2_'\
>     -e 's_^\(.*\)python\( \+-c \+.*\)$_\1python2\2_'\
>


Indeed that did the job.

Thank you very much, Maurizio