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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use the environment variable PYTHON if defined
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:40:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110329204024.GA20824@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=3Wq3Xt-QFR-FLRQ1kBjpWjaBZNFpOiE_T15WH@mail.gmail.com>

Em Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:15:30PM -0500, Michael Witten escreveu:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 13:15, Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net> wrote:
> > the patch submitted by Michael seems to be taking care of far
> > more cases than mine, so that is much better.
> 
> One major issue with my current patch is that I opted to stop the
> build with an error message even when using the default python command
> names; is this undesirable? Is it better to fail silently as before
> (via the somewhat cryptic Python.h message), or is it better to force
> the user to specify that no python support should be built?

I think that the best course of action is to emit a warning and go, i.e.
we don't have to make it harder for people that don't want $FOO support
to make that clear.

Just not having python-dev{el} installed should be enough to disable the
feature. For people that want the feature the warning is enough to tell
them to install the missing package.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-26 22:44 [PATCH] Use the environment variable PYTHON if defined Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-03-28 14:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-03-28 22:36   ` Michael Witten
2011-03-29 18:15     ` Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-03-29 19:15       ` Michael Witten
2011-03-29 20:40         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2011-03-29 21:02           ` Michael Witten
2011-03-29 21:14             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-03-31 19:15               ` Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-03-31 20:29                 ` Michael Witten
2011-04-02 20:46                   ` Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-04-02 22:40                     ` Michael Witten
2011-03-31 15:37           ` Michael Witten
2011-04-08 21:17             ` Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-04-09  1:24               ` Michael Witten
2011-04-02 21:46                 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Makefile: PYTHON{,_CONFIG} to bandage Python 3 incompatibility Michael Witten
2011-04-09  1:12                 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Makefile: Clean up `python/perf.so' rule Michael Witten
2011-04-09 18:42                 ` [PATCH] Use the environment variable PYTHON if defined Raghavendra D Prabhu
2011-04-09 20:34                   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-12 20:52                     ` [PULL] Improve Python 3 handling Michael Witten
2011-04-21  9:22     ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Makefile: PYTHON{,_CONFIG} to bandage Python 3 incompatibility tip-bot for Michael Witten

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