Simplify Python checks in configure.ac

The version checking code is not necessary. It is only used to define
HAVE_LIBPYTHON2_6 or HAVE_LIBPYTHON2_7, which is not used anywhere.

If a version check is desired, the PY_{MAJOR,MINOR}_VERSION macro from
the Python headers can be (and is) used, which does not require updating
configure.ac whenever a new Python version is released.

gdb/ChangeLog:

2019-10-24  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* config.in: Regenerate.
	* configure: Regenerate.
	* configure.ac: Remove the code that uses sed to get the python
	version and defines HAVE_LIBPYTHON2_6 / HAVE_LIBPYTHON2_7.

Change-Id: I07073870d9040c2bc8519882c8b3c1368edd4513

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/configure b/gdb/configure
index 289c91b3f98..dcd614118ad 100755
--- a/gdb/configure
+++ b/gdb/configure
@@ -10439,32 +10439,12 @@ fi
 
   have_libpython=no
   if test "${have_python_config}" = yes; then
-    # Determine the Python version by extracting "-lpython<version>"
-    # part of the python_libs. <version> is usually X.Y with X and Y
-    # being decimal numbers, but can also be XY (seen on Windows).
-    #
-    # The extraction is performed using sed with a regular expression.
-    # Initially, the regexp used was using the '?' quantifier to make
-    # the dot in the version number optional.  Unfortunately, this
-    # does not work with non-GNU versions of sed because, because of
-    # what looks like a limitation (the '?' quantifier does not work
-    # with back-references).  We work around this limitation by using
-    # the '*' quantifier instead.  It means that, in theory, we might
-    # match unexpected version strings such as "-lpython2..7", but
-    # this seems unlikely in practice.  And even if that happens,
-    # an error will be triggered later on, when checking that version
-    # number.
-    python_version=`echo " ${python_libs} " \
-                         | sed -e 's,^.* -l\(python[0-9]*[.]*[0-9]*\).*$,\1,'`
-    case "${python_version}" in
-    python*)
-
-  version=${python_version}
+
 
   new_CPPFLAGS=${python_includes}
   new_LIBS=${python_libs}
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for ${version}" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for ${version}... " >&6; }
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for python" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for python... " >&6; }
   save_CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS
   save_LIBS=$LIBS
   CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $new_CPPFLAGS"
@@ -10482,7 +10462,7 @@ Py_Initialize ();
 }
 _ACEOF
 if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  have_libpython=${version}
+  have_libpython=yes
                   found_usable_python=yes
                   PYTHON_CPPFLAGS=$new_CPPFLAGS
                   PYTHON_LIBS=$new_LIBS
@@ -10494,20 +10474,14 @@ rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: ${found_usable_python}" >&5
 $as_echo "${found_usable_python}" >&6; }
 
-      ;;
-    *)
-      as_fn_error $? "unable to determine python version from ${python_libs}" "$LINENO" 5
-      ;;
-    esac
   elif test "${have_python_config}" != failed; then
     if test "${have_libpython}" = no; then
 
-  version=python2.7
 
   new_CPPFLAGS=${python_includes}
   new_LIBS="-lpython2.7 ${python_libs}"
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for ${version}" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for ${version}... " >&6; }
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for python" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for python... " >&6; }
   save_CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS
   save_LIBS=$LIBS
   CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $new_CPPFLAGS"
@@ -10525,7 +10499,7 @@ Py_Initialize ();
 }
 _ACEOF
 if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  have_libpython=${version}
+  have_libpython=yes
                   found_usable_python=yes
                   PYTHON_CPPFLAGS=$new_CPPFLAGS
                   PYTHON_LIBS=$new_LIBS
@@ -10540,12 +10514,11 @@ $as_echo "${found_usable_python}" >&6; }
     fi
     if test "${have_libpython}" = no; then
 
-  version=python2.6
 
   new_CPPFLAGS=${python_includes}
   new_LIBS="-lpython2.6 ${python_libs}"
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for ${version}" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for ${version}... " >&6; }
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for python" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for python... " >&6; }
   save_CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS
   save_LIBS=$LIBS
   CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $new_CPPFLAGS"
@@ -10563,7 +10536,7 @@ Py_Initialize ();
 }
 _ACEOF
 if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  have_libpython=${version}
+  have_libpython=yes
                   found_usable_python=yes
                   PYTHON_CPPFLAGS=$new_CPPFLAGS
                   PYTHON_LIBS=$new_LIBS
@@ -10577,15 +10550,6 @@ $as_echo "${found_usable_python}" >&6; }
 
     fi
   fi
-  if test "${have_libpython}" = python2.7 -o "${have_libpython}" = python27; then
-
-$as_echo "#define HAVE_LIBPYTHON2_7 1" >>confdefs.h
-
-  elif test "${have_libpython}" = python2.6 -o "${have_libpython}" = python26; then
-
-$as_echo "#define HAVE_LIBPYTHON2_6 1" >>confdefs.h
-
-  fi
 
   if test "${have_libpython}" = no; then
     case "${with_python}" in