Has scallywag problems with requirements ?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 16.04.2023 03:32, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 15.04.2023 20:31, Jon Turney wrote:

>> Also, if the configure script supports it, wouldn't it be better to 
>> set the PYTHON env var, or do --with-python=/usr/bin/python${v} than 
>> fiddling with alternatives?
> 
> the configure seems to not accept the
> 
>    --with-python=/usr/bin/python${v}
> 
> it continued to pick python3.9 also when I requested 3.8
> I have however not checked the details of the configure.ac
> 

for documentation this variant works

    --with-python PYTHON=/usr/bin/python${v}

just implemented in version -2 as I was re-enabling the FTP
protocol that was disabled by default upstream

Regards
Marco