From: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ils...@tu-dresden.de> According to PEP 394 recommendation [1], it's more portable to use python2 rather than plain python to refer python binary version 2.
Since there're distros using python3 by default like Arch, and we don't support python3 (yet), it'd be better using python2 explicitly. But older versions (prior to 2.7) seem not to provide python2 but just python. Given that it's only old version, try python2 first and then fallback to python. It'll ensure that it always points to python 2.x. I tested (compiles and perf script runs) with the combinations: 1) python -> python2.x, python-config -> python2.x-config python2 N/A, python2-config N/A 2) python -> python3.x, python-config -> python3.x-config python2 -> python2.x, python2-config -> python2.x-config 3) python -> python2.x, python-config -> python2.x-config python2 -> python2.x, python2-config -> python2.x-config 4) python -> python2.x, python-config -> python2.x-config python2 -> python2.x, python2-config N/A Based on / replaces the patch 2/2 by Namhyung Kim. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394 Based-on-patch-by: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ils...@tu-dresden.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53df8493.6070...@tu-dresden.de Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/config/Makefile | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile index e05d8f99424d..75d4c237b03d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile +++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile @@ -121,10 +121,16 @@ ifdef PARSER_DEBUG endif ifndef NO_LIBPYTHON - override PYTHON := \ - $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON,python) + # Try different combinations to accommodate systems that only have + # python[2][-config] in weird combinations but always preferring + # python2 and python2-config as per pep-0394. If we catch a + # python[-config] in version 3, the version check will kill it. + PYTHON2 := $(if $(call get-executable,python2),python2,python) + override PYTHON := $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON,$(PYTHON2)) + PYTHON2_CONFIG := \ + $(if $(call get-executable,$(PYTHON)-config),$(PYTHON)-config,python-config) override PYTHON_CONFIG := \ - $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON_CONFIG,$(PYTHON)-config) + $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON_CONFIG,$(PYTHON2_CONFIG)) PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ := $(call shell-sq,$(PYTHON_CONFIG)) -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
