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, 1 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal b/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal
index 6773872326..52ce32987c 100755
--- a/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal
+++ b/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal
@@ -40,16 +40,7 @@ if [ -z "$OE_SKIP_SDK_CHECK" ] && [ -n "$OECORE_SDK_VERSION" ]; then
     return 1
 fi
 
-# Make sure we're not using python v3.x as 'python', we don't support it.
-py_v2_check=$(/usr/bin/env python --version 2>&1 | grep "Python 3")
-if [ -n "$py_v2_check" ]; then
-    echo >&2 "OpenEmbedded requires 'python' to be python v2 (>= 2.7.3), not python v3."
-    echo >&2 "Please set up python v2 as your default 'python' interpreter."
-    return 1
-fi
-unset py_v2_check
-
-py_v27_check=$(python -c 'import sys; print sys.version_info >= (2,7,3)')
+py_v27_check=$(python2 -c 'import sys; print sys.version_info >= (2,7,3)')
 if [ "$py_v27_check" != "True" ]; then
     echo >&2 "OpenEmbedded requires 'python' to be python v2 (>= 2.7.3), not python v3."
     echo >&2 "Please upgrade your python v2."