Hi,

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:50:31PM +0100, Wilhelm Schuster wrote:
> 
> I'm currently working on packaging opensmtpd-extras for Archlinux (AUR). My
> problem is that on Arch /usr/bin/python points to python3 rather than
> python2. 

Can you show what exactly fails, maybe it is easy to fix/adding support
for python3?!

> This means building opensmtpd-extras with python enabled fails as
> it expects python2. I have attached a patch that fixes the build script to
> explicitly check for `python2` rather than the generic `python` to avoid any
> ambiguities.

Sorry, but I think this is not enough and breaks other distributions,
which do not link /usr/bin/python to python3 by default.

I guess more sophisticated conditional checks/tests for python version
are required here.

Regards,
Joerg

> From 7466c7cb4692294f7c4f52b14004001bff0a9bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Wilhelm Schuster <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:13:58 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly check for python2
> 
> ---
>  configure.ac | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index e09ac6e..04e33b1 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -2323,15 +2323,15 @@ PYTHON_LDFLAGS=
>  if test x"${need_python}" = x"yes"; then
>     PYTHON_CONFIG=
>     for path in /usr/local/bin /usr/bin; do
> -     if test -f ${path}/python-config; then
> -             PYTHON_CONFIG=${path}/python-config
> +     if test -f ${path}/python2-config; then
> +             PYTHON_CONFIG=${path}/python2-config
>               break
>       fi
>     done
>  
>     # if python provided --with-python, override
>     if test x"${with_python}" != x""; then
> -      PYTHON_CONFIG="${python_prefix}/bin/python-config"
> +      PYTHON_CONFIG="${python_prefix}/bin/python2-config"
>     fi
>  
>     if ! test -f $PYTHON_CONFIG; then
> -- 
> 2.6.1
> 


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