Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8995] build fails if system python is version 3+

Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:37:23 +0000

Comment # 7 on bug 8995 from
(In reply to comment #5)
> NOTE: if we punt and require Python 2, if /usr/bin/python is Python 3, then
> the configure script's attempt to find python2 will use the already-cached
> /usr/bin/python and think *it's* python2 (at least on my Ubuntu 12.04 VM),
> so we'll need to fix that to flush the cache.

The "right" way to do that is probably to use AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK and
have the "feature check" check whether it's Python 2.  That would require a
minimum autoconf version of 2.62; on OS X, that means downloading and
installing autoconf on *all* versions of OS X.  2.62 might have been the first
version to go GPL3; fortunately, autoconf being GPL3 doesn't make the resulting
scripts GPL3, thanks to the AUTOCONF CONFIGURE SCRIPT EXCEPTION.


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