[bug#74434] [PATCH] py-compile: Allow user to disable python

2024-11-19 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Frederic, I believe this is a common practice Well, clearly no one had thought of it nor was it tried at any point during the lengthy automake pretest sequence, but anyway, agreed that there's no reason to gratuitously fail in this case. As for disabling pythong, it doesn't seem to me th

[bug#74434] [PATCH] py-compile: Allow user to disable python

2024-11-19 Thread Frédéric Bérat
Hello, While integrating automake 1.17, I found that otf2 package build fails. The failure is due to: py-compile: could not determine : major version This is a side-effect of a rework of the py-compile script, which formerly defaulted to python3 if there was an error while getting the pyt