From 999051dbe32cc77c76036ea947ec38ecca20a8b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Kruppe <robin.kruppe@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 21:19:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] configure: require Python 2.7

In other words, enforce what was documented in #30626 (and also stop blaming it on LLVM, we have at least one Python script of our own).

Also, there is no Python later than 2.7 and there never will be.
---
 README.md | 2 +-
 configure | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 293f585d105cb..a83f51e157155 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Read ["Installing Rust"] from [The Book].
 1. Make sure you have installed the dependencies:
 
    * `g++` 4.7 or `clang++` 3.x
-   * `python` 2.7 or later (but not 3.x)
+   * `python` 2.7 (but not 3.x)
    * GNU `make` 3.81 or later
    * `curl`
    * `git`
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 7958ac9bfcfe3..c05765975d479 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -729,12 +729,12 @@ step_msg "looking for build programs"
 
 probe_need CFG_CURLORWGET  curl wget
 if [ -z "$CFG_PYTHON_PROVIDED" ]; then
-    probe_need CFG_PYTHON      python2.7 python2.6 python2 python
+    probe_need CFG_PYTHON      python2.7 python2 python
 fi
 
 python_version=$($CFG_PYTHON -V 2>&1)
-if [ $(echo $python_version | grep -c '^Python 2\.[4567]') -ne 1 ]; then
-    err "Found $python_version, but LLVM requires Python 2.4-2.7"
+if [ $(echo $python_version | grep -c '^Python 2\.7') -ne 1 ]; then
+    err "Found $python_version, but Python 2.7 is required"
 fi
 
 # If we have no git directory then we are probably a tarball distribution