[Gluster-devel] Python3 build process

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 9/28/18 9:38 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
>>>
>>> Tests should just run with "$PYTHON run-the-test.py" instead of
>>> ./run-the-test.py with a #!/usr/bin/python shebang. The testing
>>> framework can also find out what version of python is available.
>>
>> If we back up a bit here, if all shebangs are cleared, then we do not
>> need anything. That is not the situation at the moment, and neither do I
>> know if that state can be reached.
> 
> Not all shebangs need to go away, only the ones for the test-cases. A
> post-install hook can modify the shebangs from python3 to python2
> depending on what ./configure detected.

None of the .py files in .../tests/... have shebangs (master and
release-5 branch).

They are all invoked with ...$PYTHON some-test.py ...

All but one of them were always invoked that way. socket-as-fifo.py was
the only one that was not, and that has been fixed.

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Kaleb