Change Python binary used to compile?

[syvb]

• Operating system and version: FreeBSD 11.2

$ freebsd-version
11.2-RELEASE

• nvm debug output:

nvm --version: v0.34.0
$SHELL: /bin/bash
$SHLVL: 1
$HOME: /home/private/
$NVM_DIR: '$HOME/.nvm'
$PATH: /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
$PREFIX: ''
$NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX: ''
$NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
$NVM_IOJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
shell version: 'GNU bash, version 5.0.2(0)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd11.2)'
uname -a: 'FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 #7 r343871M: Thu Feb 7
18:13:30 UTC 2019 root@x5:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NFSN64 amd64'
curl: /usr/local/bin/curl, curl 7.64.0 (amd64-portbld-freebsd11.2) libcurl/7.64.0
OpenSSL/1.0.2r zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.1.1 nghttp2/1.36.0
wget: /usr/local/bin/wget, GNU Wget 1.20 built on freebsd11.2.
git: /usr/local/bin/git, git version 2.21.0
grep: /usr/bin/grep, grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD
awk: /usr/bin/awk, awk version 20121220 (FreeBSD)
sed: illegal option -- -
usage: sed script [-Ealnru] [-i extension] [file ...]
sed [-Ealnu] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...
]
sed: /usr/bin/sed, 
cut: illegal option -- -
usage: cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
       cut -c list [file ...]
       cut -f list [-s] [-w | -d delim] [file ...]
cut: /usr/bin/cut, 
basename: illegal option -- -
usage: basename string [suffix]
       basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...]
basename: /usr/bin/basename, 
rm: illegal option -- -
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvWx] file ...
       unlink file
rm: /bin/rm, 
mkdir: illegal option -- -
usage: mkdir [-pv] [-m mode] directory_name ...
mkdir: /bin/mkdir, 
xargs: illegal option -- -
usage: xargs [-0opt] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr [-R replacements] [-S replsize]]
             [-J replstr] [-L number] [-n number [-x]] [-P maxprocs]
             [-s size] [utility [argument ...]]
xargs: /usr/bin/xargs, 
nvm current: system
which node: /usr/local/bin/node
which iojs: 
which npm: /usr/local/bin/npm
npm config get prefix: /usr/local
npm root -g: /usr/local/lib/node_modules

• nvm ls output:

$ nvm ls                                                        
->       system
iojs -> N/A (default)
node -> stable (-> N/A) (default)
unstable -> N/A (default)

• How did you install nvm? (e.g. install script in readme, Homebrew):

GXX=c++
shopt -s expand_aliases
alias python=python2
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm

• What steps did you perform? and What happened?

$ nvm install 0.10                               Currently, there is no binary for FreeBSD
Detected that you have 2 CPU core(s)
Number of CPU core(s) less than or equal to 2, running in single-threaded mode
Clang v3.5+ detected! CC or CXX not specified, will use Clang as C/C++ compiler!
Local cache found: $NVM_DIR/.cache/src/node-v0.10.48/node-v0.10.48.tar.xz
Checksums match! Using existing downloaded archive $NVM_DIR/.cache/src/node-v0.10.48/node-v0.10.48.tar.xz
$>./configure --prefix=/home/private//.nvm/v0.10.48 <

The following python binaries are available:

python2: Python 2.7.15
python3: Python 3.7.2
python2.7: Python 2.7.15
python3.7: Python 3.7.2

Please use the binary for the version of Python you want.

Makefile:308: *** target pattern contains no '%'.  Stop.
nvm: install v0.10.48 failed!

• What did you expect to happen?
  I am able to choose the python binary used.

• Is there anything in any of your profile files (.bashrc, .bash_profile, .zshrc, etc) that modifies the PATH?
  None that I know of

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My enviroment has a python binary that prints out a message telling me to either use python2 or python3. How do I set that?

[ljharb]

All that’s up to your system and to node, not nvm. If node requires python2 (which i believe it does) then that’s what you need to select.