[bug#74434] [PATCH] py-compile: Allow user to disable python

[Frederic Berat]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 10:29 PM Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:

> Hi Frederic,
>
>     I believe this is a common practice
>
> Well, clearly no one had thought of it nor was it tried at any point
> during the lengthy automake pretest sequence, but anyway, agreed that
> there's no reason to gratuitously fail in this case.
>

> As for disabling pythong, it doesn't seem to me that setting PYTHON=:
> can really be considered equivalent to something like a --without-python
> option, but since it helps in some cases, that's fine. --thanks, karl.
>

Well, to rephrase: that is a construct I've already seen, not that I agree
or disagree with its usage in this usecase.

There may be a bit more thoughts needed to get the py-compile-env.sh test
to work properly though.