The python-3.10 port provides a 'python3' symlink,
but python-3.11 does not. This makes build systems using AM_PYTHON,
such as libsndfile's ./configure as produced by automake-1.16.5,
_miss_ python, because python.m4 does this:
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
python3.9 python3.8 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 dnl
python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 dnl
python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 dnl
python2.0])
So python3.10 is found via the python3 symlink, but python3.11 is not found.
I don't use python as such. Is that the port adding the symlink,
or the 3.10 distribution? Can we please have the symlink for 3.11
as well? That's probably the easiest way to accommodate such systems.
(God I hate autotools.)
Jan
