[SOLVED] compiling plwm-svn stops at 'byte-compiling' stage

Axelman0 · 12-22-2010, 08:45 PM

I'm running Arch and certain python files aren't compiling for me when building plwm-svn from AUR. Here is the output from yaourt starting where things go bad:

Code:

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/wmanager.py to wmanager.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/wmanager.py", line 306
    except error.BadWindow, e:
                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/keys.py to keys.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/keys.py", line 99
    raise error, s
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_clock.py to mw_clock.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/setup.py to setup.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/inspect.py to inspect.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/inspect.py", line 194
    except socket.error, err:
                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_xmms2.py to mw_xmms2.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_xmms2.py", line 74
    except IOError, detail:
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/filters.py to filters.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/modestatus.py to modestatus.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/message.py to message.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/outline.py to outline.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/modewindow.py to modewindow.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/views.py to views.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mouse.py to mouse.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mouse.py", line 173
    raise error, s
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/event.py to event.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/event.py", line 622
    except select.error, val:
                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/focus.py to focus.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_watchfiles.py to mw_watchfiles.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_watchfiles.py", line 62
    except IOError, e:
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/composite.py to composite.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_acpi.py to mw_acpi.pyc
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_acpi.py", line 120
    except KeyError, e:
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/input.py to input.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/plwm/mw_apm.py to mw_apm.pyc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setup.py", line 40, in <module>
    'Topic :: Software Development :: User Interfaces'
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/dist.py", line 919, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/dist.py", line 938, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/command/install.py", line 592, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/cmd.py", line 315, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/dist.py", line 938, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/command/install_lib.py", line 98, in run
    self.byte_compile(outfiles)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/command/install_lib.py", line 135, in byte_compile
    dry_run=self.dry_run)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/util.py", line 560, in byte_compile
    compile(file, cfile, dfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/py_compile.py", line 137, in compile
    codestring = f.read()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 909: invalid start byte
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build plwm-svn.

any ideas?

knudfl · 12-23-2010, 04:13 PM

Quote:

byte-compiling /tmp/yaourt-tmp-zak/aur-plwm-svn/pkg/usr/lib/python3.1...
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SyntaxError: invalid syntax

PLWM is an old application and cannot use Python 3.

( Unless specified, no application can use Python 3.
Python 3 is different from Python 2.x ).
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Axelman0 · 12-23-2010, 09:15 PM

Yeah I tried going in and changing the .py files where I knew what was different, but to no avail. A python-based window manager would have been very cool but oh well, you can't stop progress.

knudfl · 12-24-2010, 04:30 AM

The solution is actually to remove Python-3.1.
The only purpose of having it, is for developing / writing Python3 applications.
And Python3 shouldn't be the main python, if you still want it.
I.e. /usr/bin/python is supposed to be python 2.6 ( or 2.7 ).

"All known" applications and python extensions uses Python 2.6 ( 2.7).

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