From efe92b4d5aeffd34d88edcf489d4df2a115a54d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:34:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the Python version check to use constructs available in
 older versions of Python.  (python --version was added in 2.5.)

git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@23813 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
---
 src/configure.in | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/configure.in b/src/configure.in
index 46f2a25c8..8e2afb2d4 100644
--- a/src/configure.in
+++ b/src/configure.in
@@ -930,19 +930,13 @@ AC_SUBST(HAVE_RUNTEST)
 
 # For Python tests.
 AC_CHECK_PROG(PYTHON,python,python)
+HAVE_PYTHON=no
 if test x"$PYTHON" != x; then
 	# k5test.py requires python 2.4 (for the subprocess module).
-	pyversion=$(python --version 2>&1 | awk '{print $2}')
-	case $pyversion in
-	1.*|2.0.*|2.1.*|2.2.*|2.3.*)
-		HAVE_PYTHON=no
-		;;
-	*)
+    	vercheck="import sys;sys.exit((sys.hexversion < 0x2040000) and 1 or 0)"
+	if python -c "$vercheck"; then
 		HAVE_PYTHON=yes
-		;;
-	esac
-else
-	HAVE_PYTHON=no
+	fi
 fi
 AC_SUBST(HAVE_PYTHON)
 
-- 
2.26.2