Re: Supporting multiple python runtimes with automake

[Yuval Turgeman]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 2:22 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <address@hidden>
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> 2018-01-30 11:26 GMT+01:00 Yuval Turgeman <address@hidden>:
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>> Hi,
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>> I added 2 macros (AM_PATH_PYTHON2 and AM_PATH_PYTHON3) to support both
>> python2 and python3 on the same system.  It works in the same way that
>> AM_PATH_PYTHON works (just a small wrapper around it).  Please notice that
>> AM_PATH_PYTHON and AM_PATH_PYTHONx can't be called together.
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>> The motive for doing this is Fedora Packaging Guidelines for Python (
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python) which requires a
>> package to be built for both runtimes.
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> Are you planning to use this for installing python2 and python3 artifacts
> in a single make install call instead of having to go through 2 runs of
> configure / make / make install ?
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Yes, the alternative to this is to run everything twice with a different
`PYTHON=` value, unless I'm missing something and there's an easier way
that would make this patch irrelevant.




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>> Thanks,
>> Yuval.
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