Re: [PATCH] Use env to find python

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:45 PM Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:39 AM Sid Spry <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, at 2:36 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > But we know that it is in /usr/bin, so why add yet another indirection?
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> > > Attachments:
> > > * signature.asc
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> > Ah, sorry -- I forgot to note this here. If you wish to support prefix it is possible it may not be in /usr/bin. Granted I am not sure if the prefix stage3 I was using is old enough to be broken in some way, but adding this would prevent future breakage.
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> The portage ebuild and the python distutils module already take care
> of updating shebangs at install time.

I suppose your patch might be useful if you are trying to run portage
from a git checkout on a prefix system.