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[PATCH v2] python: prioritize python 3.x over 2.x
From: |
Mike Frysinger |
Subject: |
[PATCH v2] python: prioritize python 3.x over 2.x |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:07:36 -0500 |
Since Python 2.x went EOL years ago, stop searching for it before
any of the Python 3 versions.
* m4/python.m4: Move python2 after all python3 versions.
* NEWS: Mention update in version search.
---
NEWS | 6 ++++++
m4/python.m4 | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 57fd4275b8a7..73c8a8e01407 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ please see NEWS-2.0 and start following the advice there now.
New in 1.17:
+* Miscellaneous changes
+
+ - AM_PATH_PYTHON will, after checking `python`, prefer any Python 3
+ version over any Python 2 version. If a specific version of Python 2 is
+ still needed, the $PYTHON variable can be set beforehand.
+
* New features added
- RANLIB may be overridden on a per-target basis.
diff --git a/m4/python.m4 b/m4/python.m4
index 6653e4d89eb2..15f5484c6d5d 100644
--- a/m4/python.m4
+++ b/m4/python.m4
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_PYTHON],
dnl Find a Python interpreter. Python versions prior to 2.0 are not
dnl supported. (2.0 was released on October 16, 2000).
m4_define_default([_AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST],
-[python python2 python3 dnl
+[python python3 dnl
python3.15 python3.14 python3.13 python3.12 python3.11 python3.10 dnl
python3.9 python3.8 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 dnl
python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 dnl
+ python2 dnl
python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 dnl
python2.0])
--
2.34.1
[PATCH v2] python: prioritize python 3.x over 2.x,
Mike Frysinger <=