Pick best python program available for 'make check'

Use an autoconf macro to find us a python executable, preferring python2.5
if we can find it. From there, fall back to python2.4 and then python.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4feb9dd1..ece29985 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PROG_LN_S
 AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
-AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
+AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+AC_CHECK_PROGS([PYTHON], [python2.5 python2.4 python], [false])
 
 # find installed gettext
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])