From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:17:12 GMT
Subject: Re: non-trivial merge failures
Message-ID: <20051120.201712.32582587.davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051120221922.GB29291@mail.com>

From: Ray Lehtiniemi <rayl@mail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:19:22 -0700

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:49:45PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like it's failing to import some python module called
> > "subprocess", and I aparently don't have that installed.
> > /usr/bin/python on this Debian box is aparently python-2.3, do
> > I need to be using python-2.4 for this merge stuff to work?
> 
> Define WITH_OWN_SUBPROCESS_PY in Makefile to install a copy of
> this module.

How about a version check at build or "make test" time so we can get a
sensible failure diagnostic instead of a weird cryptic "subprocess
import failure" when Python is too old? :-)

At least some better behavior than what we have now, where "make test"
still passes when you have this problem.