Re: crda fails to compile

[Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:56 +0300, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the last couple of days i've beeen trying to compile crda on my linux 
> box (gentoo) without success.
> 
> I've downloaded crda-1.1.1, and i've installed all the requirements as 
> described in the README file.
> 
> However, when i run make i get the following error:
> 
> GEN  keys-gcrypt.c
>    Trusted pubkeys: pubkeys/linville.key.pub.pem
>    File "./utils/key2pub.py", line 6
>      except ImportError, e:
>                        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> make: *** [keys-gcrypt.c] Error 1
> 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,

My guess is that your system installation of python (/usr/bin/python) is
actually python-3 instead of python-2. The two versions are
incompatible: a python-2 script won't run on python-3 without porting.

On gentoo you can switch your default python version back to 2 by
running the commands:

# eselect python list
Available Python interpreters:
  [1]   python2.7
  [2]   python3.1 *
# eselect python set 1

Also note that gentoo has a crda package available which you could use
instead (I'd recommend this if you're not trying to develop crda):

emerge net-wireless/crda

Hope that helps.
-- 
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>