Re: Wget2 bootstrap and "Unknown option: --"

[Darshit Shah]

Thanks. The bootstrap script is maintained by upstream gnulib. So I'll 
have to discuss this case with them in order to change the script. But 
this patch will definitely be helpful

On 8/10/20 9:49 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:02 PM Darshit Shah <darnir@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Interesting.. Thanks for the report.
> >
> > However, it may make sense to keep this behavior since I don't think
> > that the script is compatible with Python 2. I'll have to check it
> > again. I will likely change the behaviour to explicitly check for Python
> > 3 and fall back to the bourne shell script instead.
>
> This patch will get to the "Python 2.3.4 is too old" message.
>
> * https://github.com/noloader/Build-Scripts/blob/master/patch/wget2.patch
>
> Jeff