Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] configure: Look for auxiliary Python installations

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 5:22 PM John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Though part of me thinks that your new loop is slightly overengineered
>> and we should just require /usr/bin/env python3 and call it a day.
>
> Well, but that'd be a problem for CentOS 8, wouldn't it? python3 is gonna 
> resolve to python3.6.

The user would have to specify --python=/usr/bin/python3.8, or could
also set up "alternatives" so that python3 resolves to modular Python
(3.8 or newer). I think it's a fair requirement for users of
enterprise distributions, and it works because it forces usage of
QEMU's meson submodule.

My lcitool update does the former by placing ENV PYTHON
"/usr/bin/python3.8" in the Dockerfile.

Paolo