Re: [PATCH] configure: check existence of python3 setuptools and dev package

Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: check existence of python3 setuptools and dev package

Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:22:54 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> The notmuch2 CFFI-based Python interface is not buildable unless
> python3 dev package and python3 setuptools are installed.
>
> Check that these exist in configure (and disable notmuch2 bindings
> build if not) so that build of these bindings don't fail when make(1)
> is executed.

I pushed this.

I did notice that the existing python related checks are not as friendly
as some other parts of the configure script in terms of telling the user
what the consequences of a "No" answer to the check is.

d
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