From c8a8645f1efe967f7d50e224cffe8282ec7df640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 15:50:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] xen/build: Automatically locate a suitable python interpreter

Needing to pass PYTHON=python3 into hypervisor builds is irritating and
unnecessary.  Locate a suitable interpreter automatically, defaulting to Py3
if it is available.

Reported-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
 xen/Makefile | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/Makefile b/xen/Makefile
index 949ca6eb03..f36a5bc6c0 100644
--- a/xen/Makefile
+++ b/xen/Makefile
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ export XEN_BUILD_TIME	?= $(shell LC_ALL=C date +%T)
 export XEN_BUILD_HOST	?= $(shell hostname)
 export XEN_CONFIG_EXPERT ?= n
 
+# Best effort attempt to find a python interpreter, defaulting to Python 3 if
+# available.  Fall back to just `python` if `which` is nowhere to be found.
+PYTHON_INTERPRETER	:= $(word 1,$(shell which python3 python python2 2>/dev/null) python)
+export PYTHON		?= $(PYTHON_INTERPRETER)
+
 export BASEDIR := $(CURDIR)
 export XEN_ROOT := $(BASEDIR)/..
 
-- 
2.30.2