[New-bugs-announce] [issue22100] Use $HOSTPYTHON when determining candidate interpreter for $PYTHON_FOR_BUILD.

[Shiz]

New submission from Shiz:

Currently, when cross-compiling, the configure script doesn't take $HOSTPYTHON into account when determining $PYTHON_FOR_BUILD. This can lead to a wrong Python interpreter being used for several critical cross-compilation stages, leading to compilation errors[1].

Attached is a patch which makes it take $HOSTPYTHON into account, thus solving said issues, diffed against the current hg tip, 723e0a7c4914.

[1]: https://github.com/rave-engine/python3-android/issues/1 (the last issue in the report)

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components: Cross-Build
files: Python-hg-723e0a7c4914-fix-PYTHON_FOR_BUILD-detection.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 224230
nosy: shiz
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Use $HOSTPYTHON when determining candidate interpreter for $PYTHON_FOR_BUILD.
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36150/Python-hg-723e0a7c4914-fix-PYTHON_FOR_BUILD-detection.patch

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