On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 17:15, Toby D. Young <tyoung at ippt.gov.pl> wrote: > > You can't automatically locate python2 on a system that does not have > python2 but only has python3! The correct behaviour is therefore to check > for his own version numbers in the configure script (which petsc already > does to some extent) and put the check right there where users can see it > and read the error message and do something about it if things go wrong > (ie, for now, go install python2 and call that version directly). >
Everyone *has* python2.x for some x, and probably will for the next ten years. The problem is that distributions have been very inconsistent about having a link named "python2". Jed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20101019/09cf80a4/attachment.html>
