Re: [gpsd-dev] report on my build nits

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:

> Yo Bernd!
>
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:26:12 +0200
> Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 9/21/19 3:23 AM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
>> >> I need to set PYTHON because I have no program named "python".
>> >> Despite differing with PEPfoo, my system views it as necessary for
>> >> soundness to bind each python-using program to a specific python
>> >> version at build/install time, rather than letting it pick up some
>> >> possibly-different python at run time.  Not going to get resolved,
>> >>  
>> > 
>> > Yeah, little gpsd can do about broken distros that do not follow
>> > upstream preferences.  
>> 
>> Thats not the only problem here.
>> we need to be able to build for all supported python versions in a
>> distribution, so we need to be able to choose the python interpreter.
>
> Easy.  Use the "target_python=python3.7" scons config option.

I did that, and the test suite had problems, I think because
target_python didn't get used for the tests that are written in python.
But yes, it mostly worked ok.