Node-gyp: Use the right python binary

Created on 30 Oct 2014 · 3Comments · Source: nodejs/node-gyp

It looks like that you use only python2. It's perfectly fine, but you also seems to use /usr/bin/python. In archlinux, it's a symlink to python3. You should use /usr/bin/python2 instead.

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Yamakaky

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From the README:

If you have multiple Python versions installed, you can identify which Python version node-gyp uses by setting the '--python' variable:

$ node-gyp --python /path/to/python2.7

If node-gyp is called by way of npm and you have multiple versions of Python installed, then you can set npm's 'python' config key to the appropriate value:

$ npm config set python /path/to/executable/python2.7

mikemorris on 6 Feb 2015

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From the README:

If you have multiple Python versions installed, you can identify which Python version node-gyp uses by setting the '--python' variable:

$ node-gyp --python /path/to/python2.7

If node-gyp is called by way of npm and you have multiple versions of Python installed, then you can set npm's 'python' config key to the appropriate value:

$ npm config set python /path/to/executable/python2.7

mikemorris on 6 Feb 2015

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Well, npm config works, but if gyp only supports python2, you should modify the shebang for it to work out of the box.

Yamakaky on 6 Feb 2015

Fixed by #527.