[bind10-dev] python & Gentoo Linux

[Francis Dupont]

I am looking for what to do to support Win32 (with the Windows Server 2008
32 bits / Visual Studio 2008 virtual machine used for some bind9 builds).
So I tried to build bind10 on my Gentoo Linux x64_86, the configure
fails because it can't find the python3-config binary:
 - it is named python-config-3.1
 - Gentoo uses a wrapper to support several python versions at the same
  time
 - of course it is enough to say the default version is a version >= 3.1
  (python, python-config, etc, point to python3 when it is done).
BTW the problem is in configure.ac line 142:

# Check for python development environments
if test -x ${PYTHON}-config; then

but I don't (yet) think it should be fixed, this report request is about:
 - a better error message from configure
 - a line in the documentation saying if the OS supports several
  versions of python the default should likely be set to a >= 3.1

Thanks

Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>