Re: [PATCH] contrib: Improve dg-extract-results.sh's Python detection

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 02:16:37PM +0000, Sam James wrote:
>> 'python' on some systems (e.g. SLES 15) might be Python 2. Prefer ${EPYTHON}
>> if defined (used by Gentoo's python-exec wrapping), then python3, then python.
>
> I'd say EPYTHON is too distro specific, just use for python in python3 python ?
> Other scripts just have
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
> as the first line and go with that.

Sure. Should I add python2 too as well (last), given the script nominally tries to
work with it still?

>
>> contrib/ChangeLog:
>> 
>>     * dg-extract-results.sh: Check for python3 before python.
>> ---
>>  contrib/dg-extract-results.sh | 17 ++++++++++-------
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/contrib/dg-extract-results.sh b/contrib/dg-extract-results.sh
>> index 00ef80046f74..2d1cd76fe255 100755
>> --- a/contrib/dg-extract-results.sh
>> +++ b/contrib/dg-extract-results.sh
>> @@ -28,14 +28,17 @@
>>  
>>  PROGNAME=dg-extract-results.sh
>>  
>> -# Try to use the python version if possible, since it tends to be faster.
>> +# Try to use the python version if possible, since it tends to be faster and
>> +# produces more stable results.
>>  PYTHON_VER=`echo "$0" | sed 's/sh$/py/'`
>> -if test "$PYTHON_VER" != "$0" &&
>> -   test -f "$PYTHON_VER" &&
>> -   python -c 'import sys, getopt, re, io, datetime, operator; sys.exit (0 if sys.version_info >= (2, 6) else 1)' \
>> -     > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then
>> -  exec python $PYTHON_VER "$@"
>> -fi
>> +for python in ${EPYTHON:-python3} python ; do
>> +	if test "$PYTHON_VER" != "$0" &&
>> +	   test -f "$PYTHON_VER" &&
>> +	   ${python} -c 'import sys, getopt, re, io, datetime, operator; sys.exit (0 if sys.version_info >= (2, 6) else 1)' \
>> +	     > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then
>> +	  exec ${python} $PYTHON_VER "$@"
>> +	fi
>> +done
>>  
>>  usage() {
>>    cat <<EOF >&2
>> -- 
>> 2.44.0
>
> 	Jakub