[Gluster-devel] python version

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com> wrote:

> a) we upgrade the release build machine to use newer aclocal macros
> 
> b) qualify geo-replication to work on python 3 and remove the check.

Solution b is not enough: even if the configure script does not claim a 
specific version of python, it will still be unable to detect an installed 
python > 2.4 because it contains that:

for am_cv_pathless_PYTHON in python python2 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 python2.0 none; do

What about solution c?

c) Tweak autogen.sh so that it patches generated configure and add
the checks for python > 2.4 if they are missing:

--- autogen.sh.orig     2012-05-15 03:22:48.000000000 +0200
+++ autogen.sh  2012-05-15 03:24:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@
 (libtoolize --automake --copy --force || glibtoolize --automake --copy --force)
 autoconf
 automake --add-missing --copy --foreign
 cd argp-standalone;./autogen.sh
+
+sed 's/for am_cv_pathless_PYTHON in python python2 python2.4/for am_cv_pathless_PYTHON in python python2 python3 python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 python2.7  2.6 python2.5 python2.4/' configure > configure.new && mv configure.new configure


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