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-rw-r--r--autoconf/configure.ac7
-rwxr-xr-xconfigure7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/autoconf/configure.ac b/autoconf/configure.ac
index 85eee54bf3..d5f95cd0eb 100644
--- a/autoconf/configure.ac
+++ b/autoconf/configure.ac
@@ -1377,12 +1377,13 @@ else
fi
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for python >= 2.5])
-ac_python_version=`$PYTHON -c 'import sys; print sys.version.split()[[0]]'`
+ac_python_version=`$PYTHON -V 2>&1 | cut -d' ' -f2`
ac_python_version_major=`echo $ac_python_version | cut -d'.' -f1`
ac_python_version_minor=`echo $ac_python_version | cut -d'.' -f2`
ac_python_version_patch=`echo $ac_python_version | cut -d'.' -f3`
-if test "$ac_python_version_major" -eq "2" \
- && test "$ac_python_version_minor" -ge "5" ; then
+if test "$ac_python_version_major" -gt "2" || \
+ (test "$ac_python_version_major" -eq "2" && \
+ test "$ac_python_version_minor" -ge "5") ; then
AC_MSG_RESULT([$PYTHON ($ac_python_version)])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT([not found])
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 6d061d4823..2263bb4f49 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -11815,12 +11815,13 @@ fi
{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for python >= 2.5" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for python >= 2.5... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
-ac_python_version=`$PYTHON -c 'import sys; print sys.version.split()[0]'`
+ac_python_version=`$PYTHON -V 2>&1 | cut -d' ' -f2`
ac_python_version_major=`echo $ac_python_version | cut -d'.' -f1`
ac_python_version_minor=`echo $ac_python_version | cut -d'.' -f2`
ac_python_version_patch=`echo $ac_python_version | cut -d'.' -f3`
-if test "$ac_python_version_major" -eq "2" \
- && test "$ac_python_version_minor" -ge "5" ; then
+if test "$ac_python_version_major" -gt "2" || \
+ (test "$ac_python_version_major" -eq "2" && \
+ test "$ac_python_version_minor" -ge "5") ; then
{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $PYTHON ($ac_python_version)" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}$PYTHON ($ac_python_version)" >&6; }
else