CMake FindPythonInterp deprecated

pdv pdvisschere at edpnet.be
Thu Nov 28 12:08:53 UTC 2019


On 28/11/2019 10:43, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:25:16 +0100
> schrieb pdv <pdvisschere at edpnet.be>:
> 
>>> BTW, I never saw any deprecated message ... only looking into FindPythonInterp.cmake
>>> there is a hint.
>>>
>>> 	Kornel
>>>
>>>    
>> I thought that a user might want to define LYX_PYTHON_EXECUTABLE and
>> this will now be overwritten.
> 
> It was intended. Imagine following scenario:
> 1.) A user has installed python2 and uses cmake to compile lyx
> 2.) Any time later after installing python3, cmake would still use python2
> 
> 	Kornel
> 
> 
Yes I see. At 2) one could drop the LYX_PYTHON_EXECUTABLE.
Are the LYX_ variables not supposed to be set by the developer/user?

Patrick



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