Re: Getting Octave to use Anaconda Python Environment

[Ben Abbott]

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:18 PM, Colin Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 18/04/16 17:00, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> I like the autoconf support. They allowed me to determine what
>> depedencies were missing. The only problem for me was how to define
>> $PYTHON. Can you modify configure to grab $PYTHON from the shell
>> environment?
>> 
>> setenv PYTON python2.7
>> system ./configure
> 
> This sounds like a good idea.  At run-time, we would need to support
> that variable too, which could be useful.
> 
> *But* is $PYTHON env variable a standard thing?!
> 
> I didn't see it here:
> https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html
> 
> Do you have a reference?

Do standards apply? I expect all you need is for “./configure —help” to 
document what environment variables are supported.

Ben