The configure script chooses "python" if it exists, so this could
change the version of python used to run the test suite.
---
configure | 2 ++
test/test-lib.sh | 14 +++-----------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 71eef6c..1081061 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ Other environment variables can be used to control configure itself,
XAPIAN_CONFIG The program to use to determine flags for
compiling and linking against the Xapian
library. [$XAPIAN_CONFIG]
+ PYTHON Name of python command to use in
+ configure and the test suite.
Additionally, various options can be specified on the configure
command line.
diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh
index 486d1c4..9b63a7a 100644
--- a/test/test-lib.sh
+++ b/test/test-lib.sh
@@ -621,9 +621,9 @@ test_expect_equal_json () {
# The test suite forces LC_ALL=C, but this causes Python 3 to
# decode stdin as ASCII. We need to read JSON in UTF-8, so
# override Python's stdio encoding defaults.
- output=$(echo "$1" | PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python -mjson.tool \
+ output=$(echo "$1" | PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 $NOTMUCH_PYTHON -mjson.tool \
|| echo "$1")
- expected=$(echo "$2" | PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python -mjson.tool \
+ expected=$(echo "$2" | PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 $NOTMUCH_PYTHON -mjson.tool \
|| echo "$2")
shift 2
test_expect_equal "$output" "$expected" "$@"
@@ -1153,14 +1153,8 @@ test_python() {
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/../lib
export PYTHONPATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/../bindings/python
- # Some distros (e.g. Arch Linux) ship Python 2.* as /usr/bin/python2,
- # most others as /usr/bin/python. So first try python2, and fallback to
- # python if python2 doesn't exist.
- cmd=python2
- [[ ${test_missing_external_prereq_[python2]} == t ]] && cmd=python
-
(echo "import sys; _orig_stdout=sys.stdout; sys.stdout=open('OUTPUT', 'w')"; cat) \
- | $cmd -
+ | $NOTMUCH_PYTHON -
}
test_C () {
@@ -1320,5 +1314,3 @@ test_declare_external_prereq emacs
test_declare_external_prereq ${TEST_EMACSCLIENT}
test_declare_external_prereq gdb
test_declare_external_prereq gpg
-test_declare_external_prereq python
-test_declare_external_prereq python2
--
2.1.4