On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 1:14 PM Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:11 PM Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:05:14AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 9:40 AM Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Richard,
> > > >
> > > > Le sam. 10 nov. 2018 à 18:33, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi folks,
> > > >>
> > > >> I am running into problems with building the latest Wireshark master
> > > >> release on CentOS 7.5.1804.
> > > >>
> > > >> Wireshark seems to need Python 3.4 or better, and I have Python 3.6
> > > >> installed and am using the software collection (scl enable rh-python36
> > > >> bash) but cmake 3 does not want to find it.
> > > >>
> > > >> I get:
> > > >>
> > > >> [rsharpe@localhost wireshark-build]$ python -V
> > > >> Python 3.6.3
> > > >> cmake3 ../wireshark-official
> > > >> ...
> > > >> CMake Error at
> > > >> /usr/share/cmake3/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:137
> > > >> (message):
> > > >> Could NOT find PythonInterp: Found unsuitable version "2.7.5", but required
> > > >> is at least "3.4" (found /usr/bin/python)
> > > >>
> > > >> Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Either clean your build folder, or edit your CMake cache file to remove the PythonInterp entry and force a new search.
> > >
> > > It was a completely new build dir.
> > >
> > > In the end, because I imagine the Wireshark build needs a more recent
> > > version of Python, but the base platform still needs Python 2.7.5, I
> > > went with virtualenv and it seems to have worked.
> > >
> > > sudo pip3.6 install virtualenv
> > > virtualenv ./wireshark-master
> > > cd wireshark-master/
> > > source ./bin/activate
> > > cmake3 /path/to/wireshark/source
> > >
> > > seems to work.
> >
> > Like Pascal said, clearing PYTHON_EXECUTABLE from your CMakeCache.txt
> > was sufficient (you do not have to wipe the full build directory). The
> > default /usr/bin/python interpreter is Python 2.7, but CMake will now
> > search for python3 first and use that if it is new enough.
>
> Well, I tried doing that also, but no luck. It insists that python
> 2.7.5 is unsuitable ...
The correct instructions seem to be to modify the PYTHON_EXECUTABLE
line in CMakeCache.txt to the following (or whatever version you have
on the system):
PYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/python3.6
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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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