[Gluster-devel] python version

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 05/14/2012 11:45 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:01:56PM +0530, Venky Shankar wrote:
>> python 2.x is required by geo-replication. Although geo-replication is code
>> ready for python 3.x, it's not functionally tested with it. That's the
>> reason configure.ac has 2.x hard-coded.
>
> Well, my problem is that python 2.5, python 2.6 and python 2.7 are not
> detected by configure. One need to patch configure in order to build
> with python 2.x (x>  4) installed.
>

Seems like it would be easier to get autoconf and automake from the 
NetBSD packages and just run `./autogen.sh && ./configure`

(Which, FWIW, is how glusterfs RPMs are built for the Fedora 
distributions. I'd wager for much the same reason.)

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Kaleb