[cmake-developers] Issues with overriding Python version, possible bug?

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am 2017-04-29 22:47, schrieb Alan W. Irwin:
> My use case (which I am pretty sure is a common one) is that for
> PLplot I want the default behaviour of our build system to be that it
> looks for Python 3, but if that does not exist it looks for Python 2.
> 
> It appears the following logic implements that desired default
> behaviour.
> 
> find_package(PythonInterp 3)
> find_package(PythonInterp 2)
> 
> So far so good, but I am sure there will be some of our users that
> prefer Python 2 even when Python 3 is installed on their system.

find_package(PythonInterp 2 EXACT)

Eike
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