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

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:40:25 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
To:	Michael Witten <mfwitten@...il.com>
Cc:	Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@...hang.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use the environment variable PYTHON if defined

Em Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:15:30PM -0500, Michael Witten escreveu:
> 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?

I think that the best course of action is to emit a warning and go, i.e.
we don't have to make it harder for people that don't want $FOO support
to make that clear.

Just not having python-dev{el} installed should be enough to disable the
feature. For people that want the feature the warning is enough to tell
them to install the missing package.

- Arnaldo
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