[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] pidgin: Use python3 during build

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 1:10 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:00:28AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> >...
> > +@@ -1568,7 +1568,7 @@ dnl Check for Python headers (currently
> > + dnl (Thanks to XChat)
> > + if test "x$enable_consoleui" = "xyes" -a ! -z "$PYTHON" -a x"$PYTHON" != x"no" ; then
> > +         AC_MSG_CHECKING(for Python compile flags)
> > +-        PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PY, python, [
> > ++        PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PY, python3, [
> > +                 AC_SUBST(PY_CFLAGS)
> > +                 AC_SUBST(PY_LIBS)
> > +         ], [
> >...
>
> This one also wants
> https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/pull-requests/357/gnt-fix-use-after-free-memory-violation/diff
>
> Not sure whether there are more fixes that need backporting for Python3.
>

Good question. So I checked the plugins which generate .c files using
these python scripts for dbus bindings
dbus-bindings.c  dbus-signals.c  dbus-types.c  purple-client-bindings.c

and I regenerated manually using py2 and compared with py3 generated
ones. They are identical.

> cu
> Adrian