From e120d449e1b39ec508c297b963ce452628dd37c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:11:39 +0100 Subject: configure: check for supported Python 2.x versions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The tracetool code requires Python 2.4, which was released in 2004. Check for a supported Python version so we can give a clear error message. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Reviewed-by: Lluís Vilanova --- configure | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 3c72fa07df..b4f137956b 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -1239,9 +1239,10 @@ fi # Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit # with status 1 which is a shell 'false' value. -if ! "$python" -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info[0] >= 3)'; then - echo "Python 2 required but '$python' is version 3 or better." - echo "Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a Python 2." +if ! "$python" -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,4) or sys.version_info >= (3,))'; then + echo "Cannot use '$python', Python 2.4 or later is required." + echo "Note that Python 3 or later is not yet supported." + echo "Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python." exit 1 fi -- cgit v1.2.3