[Slackbuilds-users] improvement to python slackbuilds template

[Glenn]

On 11/21/25 17:29, Glenn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have come up with what I think is an improvement to the existing 
> template for python builds, patch attached.
>
> 1. Adds PYTHONVER as an input variable. The default is "3" if none is 
> given on the command line.
>
> 2. Changes the calls to python3 to python$PYTHONVER
>
> 3. If PYTHONVER was provided adds a tag to the package name.
>
> This allows something like:
>
> $PYTHONVER=3.14 ./some_python_build.Slackbuild
>
> The python build will be done against the requested version of python 
> and the package name will end with -py3.14-SBO so that it won't 
> clobber any other versions of the build you may have installed in 
> /var/log/packages/. This way if you upgrade python on your machine you 
> can easily rebuild modules for the new version. If you don't supply a 
> PYTHONVER then the build defaults to the system python3.
>
> Hope this is found useful.
>
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I also have a simple script that makes the changes to either existing 
SBo or Slackware scripts. I have only done minimal testing on it, up to 
this point I have been making the changes by hand, but I can send it if 
anyone is interested.