Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: On the sensibility of portable scripts Date: 27 Apr 2026 18:11:54 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <10s453n$5uph$1@dont-email.me> <8tjnbmxas1.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10sb89u$29ko5$4@dont-email.me> <34cqbmxlrh.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10se0t7$39rl2$2@dont-email.me> <10se5hv$39rl2$3@dont-email.me> <10smv4t$257nq$1@dont-email.me> <10sn5q8$26tnd$3@dont-email.me> <10so3mq$197ru$1@paganini.bofh.team> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xidONjjS4smBRm7HXoQKrwlc/ya5sWWdBQ40aFow2QPIZRTnpr Cancel-Lock: sha1:PsfGpPUyz2mPPm0o7p2rPcXwMLA= sha256:rEZUQv6LT3ATjuOF1SRRESP6KdEB8Q7wNIHY1nyEu5w= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85975 On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:43:06 -0700, Ian wrote: > But they should. The well known planewave program abinit has a python > script to run the test programs. Unfortunately the hashbang just > specifies python. Actually the script needs python3. On a system (e.g. > OpenSuse) where "python" by default is a symlink to python2, chaos > ensues, > with many obscure error messages till you realize what's happening. I > have been trying to get the abinitsters to change their hashbang, to no > avail. My install of openSUSE Leap 16 does not have python2 nor is python symlinked to python3.