Re: Building gobject-introspection with CPython 3.2?

[Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists gmail com>]

On 6/24/14, Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 04:09 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> >
> > > I have a single gi.Gtk GUI that runs, unchanged, on CPython 2.7 and
> > > CPython 3.3.
> >
> > The g-i tools presently require Python 2 at *build time*, but pygobject
> > at runtime can work in either 2 or 3.
>
> Well that explains a lot.
>
> Is there perhaps a FAQ somewhere detailing how to build G-I for use with
> CPython3 using CPython2 to get there?
>
> Right now, I'm compiling CPython 3.3 into
> /usr/local/cpython-3.3/bin/python3, along with GTK+ and a bunch of other
> stuff.  Is there some environment variable or something I can (temporarily)
> point at CPython 2.7 while doing this, without actually ending up with a
> CPython 2.7 living in /usr/local/cpython-3.3?
>
> Thanks!

Anyone?