Re: [Xen-devel] "./configure: line 7058: python-config: command not found" after commit 0013245

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 16:07 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: "./configure: line 7058: python-config: command not 
> found" after commit 0013245"):
> > That would be ideal, but unless someone shows me/us a system with Python
> > <=2.4 which suffers from this issue I'd also be inclined to accept a
> > patch which made that check only apply iff python-config was found
> > (assuming that would be simpler. it might actually be harder...).
> 
> Isn't that what the current code does (rather messily) ?

Yes, I misread Julien's original mail and thought configure was failing
due to the lack of python-config, but you are right, it carries on.

So it sounds like perhaps all that is needed is some judicious use of
"2>/dev/null"?

> 
> That is, it invokes python-config, doesn't notice that python-config
> fails, finds that the no output produced by python-config doesn't
> contain the problematic fortify options, and disables the workaround.
> 
> Ian.



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