Changeset 56da2817 for general

Timestamp:

10/22/2019 07:02:02 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

b138f40

Parents:

dff3a285

Message:

Work around an installation bug in Python-3.8 when doing an upgrade installation.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@22286 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/prog/python3.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

general/prog/python3.xml

@@ -140 +140 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
+ln -sfv pip&python3-majorver; /usr/bin/pip3 &amp;&amp;
 chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python3-majorver;.so &amp;&amp;
 chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.so</userinput></screen>
@@ -208 +209 @@
       <application>Python</application>. Run-time results do not appear to show
       any benefit from doing this.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <command>ln -sfv ...</command>: When upgrading to Python-3.8, it was
+      discovered that the symlink to pip3 is sometimes not created. Create
+      the symlink so that pip3 can be used as described in the book.
     </para>