[OpenPower-Firmware] Requiring Python 2.7

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Tue Mar 5 17:39:38 AEDT 2019


Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> writes:
> Hello,
>
> With an upcoming move to Buildroot 2019.03, op-build will require
> Python 2.7 to be installed on host machine.
>
> Upcoming change:
>
>  https://github.com/open-power/op-build/pull/2663
>
> Upstream release notes:
>
>  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2019-March/244273.html
>
> Please ensure you meet this requirement if you're building firmware.

My guess is that it'll soon be Python 3 considering 2.7 goes EOL Jan 1st
2020.

i.e. if your building firmware on something so ancient you don't have
recent python (e.g. RHEL6), you need to upgrade.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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