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Re: [PATCH] python3 support for /usr/bin/dtrace
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Nathan Scott <nathans at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemtap <systemtap at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:31:50 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] python3 support for /usr/bin/dtrace
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Hi -
> Came across a few syntax issues when building PCP with static
> probes enabled on a system where python3 was default. [...]
By default, meaning /usr/bin/python mapping to python3? Or do you
mean just that /usr/bin/python may be missing, so we should consider
hash-banging /usr/bin/python3 instead?
> [...] The downside to this change is that python versions before
> 2.6 may no longer work, but that seems to be a fairly common minimum
> python version these days.
RHEL5 ships with python 2.4.*. Is there a solution that lets that
work too?
- FChE