Much of the tools and configure makefile actually have a python2
dependency; specify this. It also assumes that `python` points to `python2`;
document how to work around this on systems where this is false.
Also update second version requirement listed to match the first.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>
---
Release justification:
- Fixes a 'bug' in the documentation
- No functional change
CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
CC: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
CC: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org>
CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>
CC: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
CC: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
---
README | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7807e93639..c19409efa2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ provided by your OS distributor:
- GCC 4.8 or later
- GNU Binutils 2.24 or later
* Development install of zlib (e.g., zlib-dev)
- * Development install of Python v2.4 or later (e.g., python-dev)
+ * Development install of Python 2, v2.4 or later (e.g., python-dev)
* Development install of curses (e.g., libncurses-dev)
* Development install of openssl (e.g., openssl-dev)
* Development install of x11 (e.g. xorg-x11-dev)
@@ -177,10 +177,16 @@ Python Runtime Libraries
Various tools, such as pygrub, have the following runtime dependencies:
- * Python 2.3 or later.
+ * Python 2, v2.4 or later.
URL: http://www.python.org/
Debian: python
+Note that the build system expects `python` to be python2. If your system
+has `python` pointing to python3 (as in the case of Arch Linux or Anaconda),
+you'll need to specify a path to a python2 binary when running configure:
+
+ PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 ./configure
+
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