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From: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Default to python version 2
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:28:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D22357.9010005@tu-dresden.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406258045-25726-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org>

Hi Kim,

On 2014-07-25 05:14, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> According to PEP 394 recommendation [1], it's more portable to use
> python2 rather than plain python to refer python binary version 2.

I tried to find out how backwards-compatible this is. python2(-config)
was first available in Python 2.7.3 (April 2012), but it is still not
available in 2.6.9 (Oct. 2013). So it might be better to use python2
as default but fall back to python if python2 is not available.

Best,
Thomas

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de>
---
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index f4f7f58..1b1bc9c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ ifdef PARSER_DEBUG
 endif

 ifndef NO_LIBPYTHON
-  override PYTHON := \
-    $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON,python)
+  PYTHON2 := $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON,python2)
+  override PYTHON := $(if $(PYTHON2),$(PYTHON2),$(call get-executable,python))
   override PYTHON_CONFIG := \
     $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON_CONFIG,$(PYTHON)-config)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-24 16:36 Perf: cannot overide PYTHON(_CONFIG) Thomas Ilsche
2014-07-25  3:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Fix make PYTHON override Namhyung Kim
2014-07-25  3:14   ` [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Default to python version 2 Namhyung Kim
2014-07-25  9:28     ` Thomas Ilsche [this message]
2014-07-25 10:24       ` Namhyung Kim
2014-07-25 11:43         ` Thomas Ilsche
2014-07-28  0:06           ` Namhyung Kim
2014-07-28 11:11             ` Thomas Ilsche
2014-07-29  6:38               ` Namhyung Kim
2014-07-25  7:23   ` [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Fix make PYTHON override Thomas Ilsche

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