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Re: Replace uses of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>

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From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgbuildfarm@rjuju.net, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-01-26T11:03:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

Sorry I somehow missed that email.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 7:53 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Now, most of those are BSD machines --- but lapwing isn't.
> It says
>
> checking for python... (cached) /usr/bin/python
> configure: using python 3.6.9 (default, Jan 14 2022, 06:45:55)
> checking for Python distutils module... yes
> checking Python configuration directory... /usr/local/lib/python3.6/config-3.6m-i386-linux-gnu
> checking Python include directories... -I/usr/local/include/python3.6m
> checking how to link an embedded Python application... -L/usr/local/lib -lpython3.6m -lpthread -ldl  -lutil -lrt -lm
>
> Not sure what to make of that --- maybe that's a handmade build?

Yes it is.  Lapwing is a vanilla debian 7, and the backports only
offers python 3.2.  So in anticipiation to the switch to meson I
compiled the latest python 3.6, as it's supposed to be the oldest
supported version.

Commits

  1. Replace use of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig, take 2.

  2. Temporarily add some information about python include paths to configure.

  3. Revert "Make configure prefer python3 to plain python."

  4. Make configure prefer python3 to plain python.

  5. Replace use of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig