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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should be able to override what is found by CMake by defining the
PYTHON_EXECUTABLE variable in your cmake command line

-Jon

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:41 PM Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 02:50:37PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> > On 2021-06-04 1:34 p.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > > KiCad now officially only supports Python 3.
> > [snip]
> > > The current minimum Python version is 3.7 (due to a module test call we
> > > use) but we are looking at potentially supporting Python 3.6 if we can
> > > handle dynamic reloads.
> >
> > I have 2.7 and 3.6 installed. The build process only sees the 2.7 version of
> > Python and not my 3.6 version of Python.
> >
> > If 3.7 is required I won't be able to build it until I can update the
> > version of distro I run. Not easy for me to update my distro as someone
> > broke the update/upgrade process pretty much requiring a fresh install in
> > order.
>
> Same problem here (Ubuntu 20.04-64).
>
> How can I say to the builder to not consider the python 2.7 installed but
> only the 3.x version?
>
> --
>
> Saluton,
> Marco Ciampa
>
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