Re: Zenmap build not using Python 2.X?

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:17 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 01:15:25AM -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I have an Arch Linux system with the latest Python 3:
> >
> > $ python --version
> > Python 3.2.2
> >
> >
> > When Zenmap tries to do setup I get this error:
> >
> > cd zenmap && /usr/bin/python setup.py build
> >   File "setup.py", line 307
> >     mode = ((os.stat(uninstaller_filename)[ST_MODE]) | 0555) & 07777
> >                                                           ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid token
> > make[1]: *** [build-zenmap] Error 1
> >
> > I suspect that configure isn't looking for the proper version of
> > Python which is I think 2.7:
> >
> > $ python2.7 --version
> > Python 2.7.2
>
> The problem is that the AM_PATH_PYTHON Autoconf macro allows you to
> specify a minimum but not a maximum version. The best way to work around
> this is to define PYTHON when you configure.
>
> PYTHON=python2.7 ./configure

Is there a way to add an option to configure via autoconf? That's
where I looked first to resolve the problem but didn't see anything
for it.

Thanks David for the help!

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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