From: George Dunlap Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 12:48:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: README: Document python2 dependency X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/4.14.0+80-gd101b417b7-1+rpi1^2~63^2~2512 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4deeaf2a3ee50b096426eea41a4c9b96ded0f029;p=xen.git README: Document python2 dependency Much of the tools and configure makefile actually have a python2 dependency; specify this. It also assumes that `python` points to `python2`; document how to work around this on systems where this is false. Also update second version requirement listed to match the first. Signed-off-by: George Dunlap Acked-by: Wei Liu Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross --- diff --git a/README b/README index 7807e93639..c19409efa2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ provided by your OS distributor: - GCC 4.8 or later - GNU Binutils 2.24 or later * Development install of zlib (e.g., zlib-dev) - * Development install of Python v2.4 or later (e.g., python-dev) + * Development install of Python 2, v2.4 or later (e.g., python-dev) * Development install of curses (e.g., libncurses-dev) * Development install of openssl (e.g., openssl-dev) * Development install of x11 (e.g. xorg-x11-dev) @@ -177,10 +177,16 @@ Python Runtime Libraries Various tools, such as pygrub, have the following runtime dependencies: - * Python 2.3 or later. + * Python 2, v2.4 or later. URL: http://www.python.org/ Debian: python +Note that the build system expects `python` to be python2. If your system +has `python` pointing to python3 (as in the case of Arch Linux or Anaconda), +you'll need to specify a path to a python2 binary when running configure: + + PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 ./configure + Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology Support =============================================