Re: invoke-mf2pt1.sh: 7: python: not found

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:29 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am Sonntag, den 10.05.2020, 14:41 -0400 schrieb Dan Eble:
> > I'm trying to upgrade the LilyDev Dockerfile to use Ubuntu 20.04 and I get 
> > this error when I try to build.  It's coming from here:
> >
> >     # realpath doesn't exist on OSX
> >     realpath() {
> >       python -c "import os; print(os.path.realpath('$1'))"
> >     }
> >
> > Is there a Right Way to resolve this?  Should this call python3?  Should I 
> > change the Docker image, say by creating a symlink?  TIA.
>
> The short-term solution is to install python-is-python3 which will take
> care of the symlink. Longer term, maybe the script can be made to work
> without python? I know realpath is horrible in sh, but it could be we
> can get around it...


We need python for a host of other things, so dropping it here doesn't
do much good. Now that we've moved to python 3, is it guaranteed that
python3 exists?

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