Re: Supporting upcoming distribution releases

[NiQingliang <niqingliang@insigma.com.cn>]

first sorry about that, indeed I don't know how to commit a patch, so
just paste the diff result here.

diff --git a/oe-init-build-env b/oe-init-build-env
index 77332a7..0da8bc0 100755
--- a/oe-init-build-env
+++ b/oe-init-build-env
@@ -39,6 +39,20 @@ else
    $OEROOT/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
    unset OEROOT
    unset BBPATH
+
+   # find the python version 2.x
+   # the 'python -V' need redirect to stdout
+   # precondition:
+   #    $BUILDDIR is not NULL, but I doubt when it will be NULL.
+   #    user have not made the file $BUILDDIR/python by himself.
+   for PY_BIN in `find /{usr/,}bin -regex '.*/python\(\|2\|2\.[0-9]*
\)'`; do
+      if [ -n "`$PY_BIN -V 2>&1|grep '^Python 2\.'`" ]; then
+         ln -sf $PY_BIN $BUILDDIR/python
+         export PATH="$BUILDDIR:$PATH"
+         break
+      fi
+   done
+
    [ -n "$BUILDDIR" ] && cd $BUILDDIR
 fi


On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 10:31 +0800, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 10:19 +0800, NiQingliang wrote:
> > /usr/bin/env python2
> > /usr/bin/env python2.7
> 
> These are both valid on Fedora 15, iirc before distributions started
> shipping Python 3 they were less common though...
> 
> > both of them are ok for archlinux, but I don't know which is ok for
> > other distributions, maybe both are not.
> >
> > maybe we can make a shell script to detect the python version, and make
> > a symbollink to the right one in some directory, and add the directory
> > into env var "PATH".
> 
> Patches welcome :-)
> 
> I looked at it briefly and the work would require more time than I have
> spare right now just to ensure it worked on all required distributions.
> 
> If you'd like to work on a patch I'd be happy to help test and review.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joshua
> --
> Joshua Lock
>         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
>         Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 

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