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[PATCH] test: Skip a test that fails without python enabled.

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From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
To: automake-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] test: Skip a test that fails without python enabled.
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 22:08:56 -0700

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On a system without Python 't/py-compile-usage' fails with:

    + ./py-compile --help
    + cat stdout
    py-compile: Invalid python executable (according to -V): python
    py-compile: Python support disabled
    + test -s stderr
    + grep '^Usage: py-compile .' stdout
    + am_exit_trap 1
    + exit_status=1

This occurs after the following commit:

    commit 0ea7ef97493cd88da915d1936e04a6ace5c754d8
    Author: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
    Date:   Sun Feb 9 09:36:24 2025 -0800
    
        python: restore more compatible behavior for $PYTHON.
        
        For https://bugs.gnu.org/74434.
        
        * lib/py-compile: if $PYTHON -V does not include the
        string "python" (case-insensitive), consider the support
        intentionally disabled and exit successfully, unless PYTHON is set
        to false, in which case exit unsuccessfully. This is closer to
        the old behavior. Mention this in the help message.
        * t/py-compile-env.sh: add test for PYTHON=:.
        * NEWS: mention this. (And, en passant, add some past bug#s and
        clarify that only RCS/SCCS pattern rules were disabled, not all.)
    
Simple 1 line fix attached. :)

Collin

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