[PATCH] python3 support for /usr/bin/dtrace

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Sat Feb 21 20:31:00 GMT 2015


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



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