xorg-libxcb fails with python3

[miranda@…]

When I try to install xorg-libs, I get the following errors:

--->  Configuring xorg-libxcb
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_xorg-libxcb/work/libxcb-1.2" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local " returned error 1
Command output: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.5... none
configure: error: no suitable Python interpreter found

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: xorg-libxcb xorg-libxkbfile xorg-libxkbui xorg-xcb-util
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I have Python 3.0.1 and it is in my $PATH.

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

Can you provide your config.log for me to look at

[miranda@…]

config.log file

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I'm also seeing this on Tiger with only python26 installed. Despite what it says, it's actually trying a bunch of python versions <= 2.5 but none newer. It's entirely possible that the code won't work with Python 3 due to the language changes, BTW.

[blb@…]

Try installing the python_select port and selecting the appropriate python you are wanting. It looks like configure only checks for certain python executables (from aclocal.m4):

[python python2 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 python2.0 python1.6 python1.5]

so if you use python_select to set one up, it should see it as just 'python' afterwards.

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

r47334 should address this

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

[yeah, it looks like an old m4 macro was used to implement the check for: AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5])

[miranda@…]

Thanks. python_select did the trick. I didn't even know I had python 2.6 but that was one of my options. I wonder why it didn't recognize python 3.

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