From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: tbird20d@gmail.com
Cc: mchehab@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim.bird@sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: add '-p python3' to virtualenv
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 13:09:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200302130911.05a7e465@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1582594481-23221-1-git-send-email-tim.bird@sony.com>
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:34:41 -0700
tbird20d@gmail.com wrote:
> With Ubuntu 16.04 (and presumably Debian distros of the same age),
> the instructions for setting up a python virtual environment should
> do so with the python 3 interpreter. On these older distros, the
> default python (and virtualenv command) might be python2 based.
>
> Some of the packages that sphinx relies on are now only available
> for python3. If you don't specify the python3 interpreter for
> the virtualenv, you get errors when doing the pip installs for
> various packages
>
> Fix this by adding '-p python3' to the virtualenv recommendation
> line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
I've applied this, even though it feels a bit fragile to me. But Python
stuff can be a bit that way, sometimes, I guess.
Thanks,
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-02 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 1:34 [PATCH] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: add '-p python3' to virtualenv tbird20d
2020-03-02 20:09 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2020-03-03 17:07 ` Bird, Tim
2020-03-03 20:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-03-04 17:25 ` Bird, Tim
2020-03-04 19:53 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-04 5:42 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-04 6:20 ` Markus Heiser
2020-03-04 8:31 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-04 9:20 ` Markus Heiser
2020-03-05 21:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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