Subject: Re: bug#53530: [PATCH] python: add 3.10 - 3.15 to the version search list
From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:59:26 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 26 Jan 2022 06:37, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/53530.
> 
> Based on the cadence of Automake releases, add the current Python
> release (3.10), the current Python development (3.11), and then 4
> more versions on top of that.  It doesn't hurt to check for a few
> extra versions here since this is the fallback logic when the main
> `python` and `python3` programs aren't found.
> 
> * m4/python.m4: Add python3.10 - python3.15.
> ---
>  m4/python.m4 | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/m4/python.m4 b/m4/python.m4
> index f5b5371c6a63..6653e4d89eb2 100644
> --- a/m4/python.m4
> +++ b/m4/python.m4
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_PYTHON],
>    dnl supported. (2.0 was released on October 16, 2000).
>    m4_define_default([_AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST],
>  [python python2 python3 dnl
> + python3.15 python3.14 python3.13 python3.12 python3.11 python3.10 dnl
>   python3.9 python3.8 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 dnl
>   python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 dnl
>   python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 dnl
> -- 
> 2.34.1

i've pushed this w/a NEWS update
  - AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for Python versions 3.10 - 3.15.  It has
    previously searched for 3.0 - 3.9.
-mike