Re: Building gobject-introspection with CPython 3.2?

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Jun 27, 2014, at 3:41 AM, Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists gmail com> wrote:

> 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?

That's a pretty basic question for this list. You'll find the answer in the Python Docs:
https://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html#environment-variables
https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#environment-variables

Regards,
John Ralls