The variable 'PYTHON' allows users to specify a proper executable name in case the default 'python' does not work. However, this does not address the case where both Python 2 and Python 3 scripts are used in one system.
PEP 394 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/) provides a convention for Python scripts portability. Here is a quotation: In order to tolerate differences across platforms, all new code that needs to invoke the Python interpreter should not specify 'python', but rather should specify either 'python2' or 'python3'. This distinction should be made in shebangs, when invoking from a shell script, when invoking via the system() call, or when invoking in any other context. arch/ia64/scripts/unwcheck.py is apparently written in Python 2, so it should be invoked by 'python2'. It is legitimate to use 'python' for scripts compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3, but this is rare (at least I do not see the case in kernel tree). You do not need to make efforts to write your scripts in that way. Anyway, Python 2 will retire in 2020. This commit is needed for my new scripts written in Python 3. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> --- Makefile | 5 +++-- arch/ia64/Makefile | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 11aff0f..c4e935c 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ GENKSYMS = scripts/genksyms/genksyms INSTALLKERNEL := installkernel DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod PERL = perl -PYTHON = python +PYTHON2 = python2 +PYTHON3 = python3 CHECK = sparse CHECKFLAGS := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \ @@ -430,7 +431,7 @@ GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP HOSTLDFLAGS HOST_LOADLIBES -export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON UTS_MACHINE +export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE export HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS LDFLAGS diff --git a/arch/ia64/Makefile b/arch/ia64/Makefile index 2dd7f51..862a2ba 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/Makefile +++ b/arch/ia64/Makefile @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ vmlinux.gz: vmlinux $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $@ unwcheck: vmlinux - -$(Q)READELF=$(READELF) $(PYTHON) $(srctree)/arch/ia64/scripts/unwcheck.py $< + -$(Q)READELF=$(READELF) $(PYTHON2) $(srctree)/arch/ia64/scripts/unwcheck.py $< archclean: $(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(boot) -- 2.7.4
