Since Python 2.x went EOL years ago, stop searching for it before any of the Python 3 versions.
* m4/python.m4: Move python2 after all python3 versions. * NEWS: Mention update in version search. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ m4/python.m4 | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 57fd4275b8a7..73c8a8e01407 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ please see NEWS-2.0 and start following the advice there now. New in 1.17: +* Miscellaneous changes + + - AM_PATH_PYTHON will, after checking `python`, prefer any Python 3 + version over any Python 2 version. If a specific version of Python 2 is + still needed, the $PYTHON variable can be set beforehand. + * New features added - RANLIB may be overridden on a per-target basis. diff --git a/m4/python.m4 b/m4/python.m4 index 6653e4d89eb2..15f5484c6d5d 100644 --- a/m4/python.m4 +++ b/m4/python.m4 @@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ 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 +[python python3 dnl python3.15 python3.14 python3.13 python3.12 python3.11 python3.10 dnl python3.9 python3.8 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 dnl python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 dnl + python2 dnl python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 dnl python2.0]) -- 2.34.1