I was thinking if I can check for both which version of Python is currently
available like 2 or 3, installation proceed with that.
PYTHON= python2.6, does this mean that it will be installed with Python 3
as well?

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 2:54 AM Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us>
wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, Anmol Mishra wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> > I am an open source contributor and doing Google Summer Of Code 2018 at
> > Sugar Labs. I would like to know that I have a repository that was
> earlier
> > working fat python2 and my makefile were installing it correctly, now we
> > have moved forward to provide our package dual compatibility in Python 2
> > and Python 3, whole code is ready but I seek help for How to make the
> > suitable changes that my changes in makefile gets adapted in such a way
> > that my package will be installed in python 2 or python 3 directory
> > depending on the version available on system. Your precious help and
> > guidance will be highly appreciated.
>
> I suggest adding support for --with-python=[=PYTHON] to your package's
> configure script,  It should use /usr/bin/python by default, or the
> program specified by the PYTHON environment variable, or perhaps the
> 'python' which occurs first in the executable search path.
>
> It should be possible to do something like
>
>    ./configure --with-python=/my/python5.78
>
> In order to allow a specific python to be used.
>
> Two builds would be required to support both python2 and python3 on
> the same host.
>
> Bob
> --
> Bob Friesenhahn
> bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
>
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