Hi automake developers!
Projects using automake build system occasionally get bug reports that
python 3.11 and above do not get automatically detected by
AM_PATH_PYTHON([3.7])
Recent example: https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/issues/456
It was fixed a while ago in
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=930a9a73f4bb776ec334eff4cf6e182802841daa
python: add 3.10 - 3.15 to the version search list
Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/53530.
Based on the cadence of Automake releases, add the current Python
release (3.10), the current Python development (3.11), and then 4
more versions on top of that. It doesn't hurt to check for a few
extra versions here since this is the fallback logic when the main
`python` and `python3` programs aren't found.
* m4/python.m4: Add python3.10 - python3.15.
* NEWS: Mention new Python versions.
WDYT of cutting new `automake` that includes this fix? Then projects
could start cutting release tarballs that Just Work for such systems.
Thanks
--
Sergei
