Re: [Qemu-devel] Git Master does not allow ./configure => python error

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:16:17AM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the current git master of qemu fails on configure: (I did a fresh clone to
> prevent any side effects)
> 
> address@hidden:~/tmp/qemu-test/qemu$ ./configure --prefix=
> --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-vnc-png --disable-vnc-jpeg
> --disable-vnc-tls --disable-vnc-sasl  --audio-drv-list= --enable-sdl
> --disable-xen --disable-brlapi --disable-bluez --disable-curl
> --disable-guest-agent --disable-spice
> Unknown option: -B
> usage: python [option] ... [-c cmd | -m mod | file | -] [arg] ...
> Try `python -h' for more information.
> 
> ERROR: Cannot use 'python -B', Python 2.4 or later is required.
>        Note that Python 3 or later is not yet supported.
>        Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python.
> 
> 
> And interesting:
> address@hidden:~/tmp/qemu-test/qemu$ python --version
> Python 2.5
> 
> There seems to be something really odd. Thanks for having a look at it.

Please see Stefan Weil's fix:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/241844

Stefan