this is because GCC becoming more strict to conform with C23
requirements. I did these tests with GCC 14.1.
I have attached a patch fixing these tests on my system.
Collin
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From: Collin Funk
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 21:53:51 -0
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From: Collin Funk
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 02:26:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] python: Prefer python3 over python
* m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Check for python3 before python.
* NEWS: Document that python3 is used first.
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NEW
Karl Berry wrote:
> I can imagine preferring "python3" to "python" in the future, but this
> seems like too big of a change to make at the very end (I hope) of the
> pretest cycle. I think it would be better to make it well in advance of
> the next release and try to garner feedback on the inevitab
Hi Karl,
Karl Berry wrote:
> Yes ... but I feel strongly that we should try very hard not to break
> existing configure setups.
Reasonable goal.
> It occurs to me that we could allow maintainers to specify p3-searching
> options in their configure.ac, like
>
> AM_PYTHON_OPTS(python3-check-first
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Automake's python.m4 should also define these if they are not already defined.
> Then, we split AM_PATH_PYTHON into the part that sets PYTHON, which is
> implemented
> in terms of the above macros (but still looks for both 2 and 3) and the part
> that
> does all the rest of
Hi Karl,
Karl Berry writes:
> What do others think? Bruno, would you mind taking a look at Michael's
> message? https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=73769
I'm not Bruno, but I feel like I know a bit about gnulib-tool. :)
I disagree with the patch since it doesn't work for every packag
Hi Karl,
Karl Berry writes:
> I'm hoping to put out the first pretest tomorrow and 1.18 not long
> after. So clearly this Python stuff needs to wait for another release.
Thanks for mentioning this again. That plan sounds fine. Python packages
seem to have their own packaging stuff that works we
