Commit fec21036 authored by Markus Armbruster's avatar Markus Armbruster Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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configure: Require Python 2.6



RHEL-6 and SLES-11 provide Python 2.6.  It'll also work on OS X back
to 10.6.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1441396383-17304-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 8ef2eb8d
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@@ -1166,18 +1166,14 @@ fi

# Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit
# with status 1 which is a shell 'false' value.
if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,4) or sys.version_info >= (3,))'; then
  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2.4 or later is required." \
if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,6) or sys.version_info >= (3,))'; then
  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2.6 or later is required." \
      "Note that Python 3 or later is not yet supported." \
      "Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python."
fi

# The -B switch was added in Python 2.6.
# If it is supplied, compiled files are not written.
# Use it for Python versions which support it.
if $python -B -c 'import sys; sys.exit(0)' 2>/dev/null; then
# Suppress writing compiled files
python="$python -B"
fi

case "$cpu" in
    ppc)