aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2018-06-26 09:21:59 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2018-06-26 09:21:59 -0400
commitd6d3f8486dbac9837a793f431dcd58505e7274e4 (patch)
treea8a3d9e465242f5bc06cf60a38cc8f71d0e3520b
parent340fcc7e2e1c1c78bb03c997601bf57bde9bf8e6 (diff)
parentfcd26af7c0b9926f8e56149a72de9dd47ad37a69 (diff)
downloadtor-d6d3f8486dbac9837a793f431dcd58505e7274e4.tar.gz
tor-d6d3f8486dbac9837a793f431dcd58505e7274e4.zip
Merge branch 'maint-0.2.9' into maint-0.3.1
-rw-r--r--changes/feature26372_0294
-rw-r--r--configure.ac6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changes/feature26372_029 b/changes/feature26372_029
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..150ac30555
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/feature26372_029
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ o Minor features (compilation):
+
+ - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
+ recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes ticket 26372.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9c079b26ff..7bfbcfccfc 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -248,7 +248,11 @@ AM_PROG_CC_C_O
AC_PROG_CC_C99
AC_ARG_VAR([PYTHON], [path to Python binary])
-AC_CHECK_PROGS(PYTHON, [python python2 python2.7 python3 python3.3])
+AC_CHECK_PROGS(PYTHON, [ \
+ python3 \
+ python3.8 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 \
+ python \
+ python2 python2.7])
if test "x$PYTHON" = "x"; then
AC_MSG_WARN([Python unavailable; some tests will not be run.])
fi