Re: non-trivial merge failures

From: Ray Lehtiniemi <redacted>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:19:22 -0700

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:49:45PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

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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.