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bug #62732: Is Python used in the build process? if so need to update AC_CHECK_PROGS

Submitter:  Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Submitted:  Sat 09 Jul 2022 04:54:08 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Configuration and Build System Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Other
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sat 09 Jul 2022 04:59:08 PM UTC, comment #1: 

My build system was not detecting python because Octave was searching only for "python", whereas the name on my system was "python3" (and this is the recommended naming on UNIX platforms).

I switched Octave's build system to use AC_CHECK_PROGS to look for multiple python names "python", "python3" in this changeset http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/0c637fa9529a.

I've verified that the build process now detects python on my system where it had failed before.

Marking as Fixed and closing report.

Rik <rik5>
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Sat 09 Jul 2022 04:54:08 PM UTC, original submission:  

Summary: its not clear whether Octave's build needs Python.  But if it does, then it needs to be careful about the name of the binary: roughly "python3" on unix and "python" on windows.

See this thread for details.

https://octave.discourse.group/t/configure-test-for-python-can-fail-but-with-little-apparent-harm/2978


Colin Macdonald <cbm>

 

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