oe-init-buildenv/base: Relax python version checks in favour of HOSTTOOLS manipulation

Several distros are now shipping "python" as python v3 contra to the original
python guidelines. This causes users confusion/pain in trying to use our tools.

We can just force "python" to "python2" within HOSTTOOLS to avoid this issue
and hide the complexity from the user.

(From OE-Core rev: b06a6cde5c5503f456f260c773cf126085e18c8d)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 93aee1ae46..dcf2007883 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -476,12 +476,13 @@ export PATH
 HOSTTOOLS_DIR = "${TMPDIR}/hosttools"
 
 # Tools needed to run builds with OE-Core
+# python is special cased to point at python2
 HOSTTOOLS += " \
     [ ar as awk basename bash bzip2 cat chgrp chmod chown chrpath cmp comm cp cpio \
     cpp cut date dd diff diffstat dirname du echo egrep env expand expr false \
     fgrep file find flock g++ gawk gcc getconf getopt git grep gunzip gzip \
     head hostname id install ld ldd ln ls make makeinfo md5sum mkdir mknod \
-    mktemp mv nm objcopy objdump od patch perl pod2man pr printf pwd python python2 \
+    mktemp mv nm objcopy objdump od patch perl pod2man pr printf pwd python2 \
     python2.7 python3 ranlib readelf readlink rm rmdir rpcgen sed sh sha256sum \
     sleep sort split stat strings strip tail tar tee test touch tr true uname \
     uniq wc wget which xargs \