'make' fails in Arch

[Uwe]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:

> Not sure why this is happening.  Anyone have a clue?  Perhaps a problem using
> Python 2.7?
> 
> [jeb at jebsdesktop spaetz-offlineimap-dd02c30]$ make
> python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 27, in <module>
>     import offlineimap
>   File "/home/jeb/Download/spaetz-offlineimap-dd02c30/offlineimap/__init__.py",
> line 23, in <module>
>     from offlineimap.init import OfflineImap
>   File "/home/jeb/Download/spaetz-offlineimap-dd02c30/offlineimap/init.py",
> line 351
>     except Exception, e:
>                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> make: *** [build] Error 1
> [jeb at jebsdesktop spaetz-offlineimap-dd02c30]$
> 
> Jonathan E. Brickman
> Ponderworthy Music
> 805 SW Jewell Ave
> Topeka KS 66606-1610
> jeb at ponderworthy.com
> 

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Hi

Have a look at the PKGBUILD[1] in the AUR.

Arch symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3 and not python2, so you need to do
that for yourself, if you're not using said PKGBUILD.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24202