linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Use the environment variable PYTHON if defined

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=3Wq3Xt-QFR-FLRQ1kBjpWjaBZNFpOiE_T15WH@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:15:30 -0500
From:	Michael Witten <mfwitten@...il.com>
To:	Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@...hang.net>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use the environment variable PYTHON if defined

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 13:15, Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@...hang.net> wrote:
> the patch submitted by Michael seems to be taking care of far
> more cases than mine, so that is much better.

One major issue with my current patch is that I opted to stop the
build with an error message even when using the default python command
names; is this undesirable? Is it better to fail silently as before
(via the somewhat cryptic Python.h message), or is it better to force
the user to specify that no python support should be built?
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