From 54a1cfa97321c5990511a84f5a839e43fbb853d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 19:06:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: prefer python3 over python2 in autotools's configure
 script

On Debian sid, pygobject no longer builds "python-gobject" for
python2. Still, python2 may be installed and detected preferably
by AM_PATH_PYTHON(). Add workaround.
---
 configure.ac | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8c582f6b09..d6842670a2 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1223,7 +1223,10 @@ else
 fi
 AC_SUBST(NM_LOG_COMPILER, 'LOG_COMPILER = "$(top_srcdir)/tools/run-nm-test.sh" --called-from-make "$(abs_top_builddir)" "$(LIBTOOL)" "$(with_valgrind)" "'"$with_valgrind_suppressions"'" --launch-dbus=auto')
 
-AM_PATH_PYTHON([], [], [PYTHON=python])
+AM_PATH_PYTHON([3], [], [PYTHON=])
+if test -z "$PYTHON"; then
+	AM_PATH_PYTHON([], [], [PYTHON=python])
+fi
 AC_SUBST(PYTHON, [$PYTHON])
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(TEST_NM_PYTHON, "$PYTHON", [Define python path for test binary])