From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:38:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove PYTHON variable Message-Id: <87r1lzvj3q.fsf@meer.lwn.net> List-Id: References: <20210201010024.654526-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20210201010024.654526-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Masahiro Yamada , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada , Fenghua Yu , Michal Marek , Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Masahiro Yamada writes: > Python retired in 2020, and some distributions do not provide the > 'python' command any more. > > As in commit 51839e29cb59 ("scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3"), > we need to use more specific 'python3' to invoke scripts even if they > are written in a way compatible with both Python 2 and 3. > > This commit removes the variable 'PYTHON', and switches the existing > users to 'PYTHON3'. > > BTW, PEP 394 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/) is a helpful > material. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada So this will have the effect of making the docs build impossible for folks who only have Python 2. As I said before, this is a step that we knew was coming, we just hadn't decided on the exact timing - I guess this decides for us :) That said, I'll copy linux-doc to see if anybody screams. I assume this is a 5.12 change? Thanks, jon