[Bug 253563] Use '/usr/local/bin/python3' as the value of PYTHON_CMD

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            Bug ID: 253563
           Summary: Use '/usr/local/bin/python3' as the value of
                    PYTHON_CMD
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: doc at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: yasu at utahime.org

Created attachment 222495
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=222495&action=edit
Patch file

Currently '/usr/local/bin/python3.7' is used as the value of PYTHON_CMD. Right
now it is proper because 3.7 is the default version of Python 3 in ports tree.
But it will be change to newer version in the future. Additionally, if user
build packages from ports tree by himself he can change default version of
Python 3 by adding 'DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python3=3.x' in make.conf. In such cases
setting PYTHON_CMD to '/usr/local/bin/python3.7' is improper.

BTW in the section 1.1 of FDP user is told to install 'python3' package. This
is meta package that depends on the default version of Python 3. And if it is
installed '/usr/local/bin/python3' is created as the symbolic link to the
Python 3 interpreter of the default version (e.g. /usr/local/bin/python3.7). So
if '/usr/local/bin/python3' is used as the value of PYTHON_CMD, it works fine
regardless of which version is assigned to the default of Python 3.

So change the value of PYTHON_CMD in doc tree to '/usr/local/bin/python3'.

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