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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] README: document that `python` is required
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 15:38:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62fa5069-b65b-e540-1981-a464e84c076a@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190513134714.3124-4-wei.liu2@citrix.com>

On 5/13/19 2:47 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> The hypervisor build system requires `python`. To avoid putting too
> much (confusing) information in README, mandate availability of
> `python`.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> ---
>  README | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 23e4f7c3dc..a60ccf6e9c 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ Various tools, such as pygrub, have the following runtime dependencies:
>            URL:    http://www.python.org/
>            Debian: python
>  
> +Note that the build system expects `python` to be available. If your system
> +only has `python2` or `python3` but not `python` (as in Linux From Scratch),
> +you will need to create a symlink for it.

Since we're not in a release crunch any more, it seems like updating
./configure to look for ""python3", "python2", and "python" (probably in
that order) would be a better solution here.

 -George

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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] README: document that `python` is required
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 15:38:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62fa5069-b65b-e540-1981-a464e84c076a@citrix.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190513143824.aRK96jPb8Qp2SPshwsJLXvKFzPQkcniVmLLubQGTwx0@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190513134714.3124-4-wei.liu2@citrix.com>

On 5/13/19 2:47 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> The hypervisor build system requires `python`. To avoid putting too
> much (confusing) information in README, mandate availability of
> `python`.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> ---
>  README | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 23e4f7c3dc..a60ccf6e9c 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ Various tools, such as pygrub, have the following runtime dependencies:
>            URL:    http://www.python.org/
>            Debian: python
>  
> +Note that the build system expects `python` to be available. If your system
> +only has `python2` or `python3` but not `python` (as in Linux From Scratch),
> +you will need to create a symlink for it.

Since we're not in a release crunch any more, it seems like updating
./configure to look for ""python3", "python2", and "python" (probably in
that order) would be a better solution here.

 -George

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-13 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-13 13:47 [PATCH 0/4] Misc patches Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] gitignore: ignore .vscode directory Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47   ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:13   ` Anthony PERARD
2019-05-13 14:13     ` [Xen-devel] " Anthony PERARD
2019-05-13 14:16     ` Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:16       ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] public/tmem.h: fix version number in comment Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47   ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:25   ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-13 14:25     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-13 13:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] README: document that `python` is required Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47   ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:27   ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-13 14:27     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-13 14:36     ` Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:36       ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:38   ` George Dunlap [this message]
2019-05-13 14:38     ` George Dunlap
2019-05-13 14:40     ` Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:40       ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] INSTALL: remove duplicate sentence Wei Liu
2019-05-13 13:47   ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:29   ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-13 14:29     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-13 14:34     ` Wei Liu
2019-05-13 14:34       ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu

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