dependencies.sh: Check for a host python version >= 2.7

Older distributions such as CentOS6 come with python2.6, which causes build
failures in packages such as host-libglib2 because they require python2.7 and
above.

host-libglib2 will produce the error message:
/bin/sh: python2.7: command not found

Python2.7 is a hard-coded value in configure.ac. If one changes the value to
just "python," the following stack trace is produced:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gdbus-2.0/codegen/gdbus-codegen.in", line 55, in <module>
    self.outfile.write(LICENSE_STR.format(config.VERSION))
ValueError    : sys.exit(codegen_main.codegen_main())
zero length field name in format

Instead of supporting an ancient version of Python that had its support ended
in October os 2013, it would be more pragmatic only to support Python2.7 and
above.

Luckily; CentOS6 has the centos-release-scl repository, which allows users to
install python2.7, and Debian 8 comes with Python2.7 already, making this patch
relatively low impact.

Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
[Peter: only look at major.minor to handle x.y.z with z < 10]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
index 58c34d880ff07cfc6ef78afa9d4d27714dc19d30..826874baa2e8ae3f7908282ad86e32dbe046526c 100755 (executable)
--- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
+++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
@@ -181,6 +181,14 @@ if test "${missing_progs}" = "yes" ; then
        exit 1
 fi
 
+# Check that the python version is at least 2.7
+PYTHON_VERSION=$(python -V 2>&1 |awk '{ split($2, v, "."); print v[1] v[2] }')
+if [ $PYTHON_VERSION -lt 27 ]; then
+       echo
+       echo "You have '$(python -V 2>&1)' installed.  Python >= 2.7 is required"
+       exit 1;
+fi
+
 if grep ^BR2_NEEDS_HOST_UTF8_LOCALE=y $BR2_CONFIG > /dev/null; then
        if ! which locale > /dev/null ; then
                echo