Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/ehabkost/tags/python-next-pull-request' into staging

Python queue, 2019-05-02

* configure: automatically pick python3 is available
  (Daniel P. Berrangé)

* tests/acceptance (Cleber Rosa, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé):
  * Multi-architecture test support
  * Multiple arch-specific boot_linux_console test cases
  * Increase verbosity of avocado by default
  * docstring improvements

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* remotes/ehabkost/tags/python-next-pull-request:
  configure: automatically pick python3 is available
  tests/boot_linux_console: add a test for alpha + clipper
  tests/boot_linux_console: add a test for s390x + s390-ccw-virtio
  tests/boot_linux_console: add a test for arm + virt
  tests/boot_linux_console: add a test for aarch64 + virt
  tests/boot_linux_console: add a test for mips64el + malta
  tests/boot_linux_console: add a test for mips + malta
  scripts/qemu.py: support adding a console with the default serial device
  tests/boot_linux_console: refactor the console watcher into utility method
  tests/boot_linux_console: increase timeout
  tests/boot_linux_console: add common kernel command line options
  tests/boot_linux_console: update the x86_64 kernel
  tests/boot_linux_console: rename the x86_64 after the arch and machine
  tests/acceptance: look for target architecture in test tags first
  tests/acceptance: use "arch:" tag to filter target specific tests
  tests/acceptance: introduce arch parameter and attribute
  tests/acceptance: fix doc reference to avocado_qemu directory
  tests/acceptance: improve docstring on pick_default_qemu_bin()
  tests/acceptance: show avocado test execution by default

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

# Conflicts:
#	configure

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c1e07a9..5b183c2 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -899,7 +899,18 @@ fi
 
 : ${make=${MAKE-make}}
 : ${install=${INSTALL-install}}
-: ${python=${PYTHON-python}}
+# We prefer python 3.x. A bare 'python' is traditionally
+# python 2.x, but some distros have it as python 3.x, so
+# we check that before python2
+python=
+for binary in "${PYTHON-python3}" python python2
+do
+    if has "$binary"
+    then
+        python="$binary"
+        break
+    fi
+done
 : ${smbd=${SMBD-/usr/sbin/smbd}}
 
 # Default objcc to clang if available, otherwise use CC
@@ -1823,8 +1834,9 @@ fi
 # Remove old dependency files to make sure that they get properly regenerated
 rm -f *-config-devices.mak.d
 
-if ! has $python; then
-  error_exit "Python not found. Use --python=/path/to/python"
+if test -z "$python"
+then
+    error_exit "Python not found. Use --python=/path/to/python"
 fi
 
 # Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit