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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I made this change[1] to try to fix the Ubuntu python3 situation

Does this not work for you if you start from a clean directory (get rid of
CMake cache)?

[1]
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/commit/b345d979543d3f42add7e563e9881448b15d01bf

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 5:00 PM Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2021-06-14 4:34 p.m., Marco Ciampa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Jon Evans wrote:
> >> You should be able to override what is found by CMake by defining the
> >> PYTHON_EXECUTABLE variable in your cmake command line
> >
> > Gosh, shame on me, it was so simple!
>
> Not that simple. I tried passing -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python3 and it still
> only finds 2.7. I tried it without the -D part. I have also tried it with
> and without a full path to python3. I even tried putting PYTHON_EXECUTABLE
> before 'cmake' on the line.
>
> How do you tell cmake which version of python you want to use?
>
>
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