From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:53:03 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: configure: Require Python 2.6
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configure: Require Python 2.6

RHEL-6 and SLES-11 provide Python 2.6.  It'll also work on OS X back
to 10.6.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1441396383-17304-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index f08327e10..913ae4a0e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1166,18 +1166,14 @@ fi
 
 # Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit
 # with status 1 which is a shell 'false' value.
-if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,4) or sys.version_info >= (3,))'; then
-  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2.4 or later is required." \
+if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,6) or sys.version_info >= (3,))'; then
+  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2.6 or later is required." \
       "Note that Python 3 or later is not yet supported." \
       "Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python."
 fi
 
-# The -B switch was added in Python 2.6.
-# If it is supplied, compiled files are not written.
-# Use it for Python versions which support it.
-if $python -B -c 'import sys; sys.exit(0)' 2>/dev/null; then
-  python="$python -B"
-fi
+# Suppress writing compiled files
+python="$python -B"
 
 case "$cpu" in
     ppc)