From 17b29261bdbe6bc75330ffa64c015ad6da87e5da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 08:38:50 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] add AC_ARG_VAR([PYTHON], [path to python executable])

(cherry picked from commit eed2aabc409a41dc311e4101c399e461d5f92f9f)
---
 configure    | 4 ++++
 configure.ac | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index a130d0e114..aab472a6f8 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1104,6 +1104,7 @@ CPP
 PKG_CONFIG
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
+PYTHON
 MAXMINDDB_CFLAGS
 MAXMINDDB_LIBS
 MAXMINDDB_PREFIX
@@ -1851,6 +1852,7 @@ Some influential environment variables:
               directories to add to pkg-config's search path
   PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
               path overriding pkg-config's built-in search path
+  PYTHON      path to python executable
   MAXMINDDB_CFLAGS
               C compiler flags for MAXMINDDB, overriding pkg-config
   MAXMINDDB_LIBS
@@ -12542,6 +12544,8 @@ except: exit(1)'
 default_with_python="python python3 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 python3.2 python2 python2.7"
 
 
+
+
 # Check whether --with-python was given.
 if test "${with_python+set}" = set; then :
   withval=$with_python;
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d7ec21da46..4ab10a05f9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ except: exit(1)'
 
 default_with_python="python python3 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 python3.2 python2 python2.7"
 
+AC_ARG_VAR([PYTHON], [path to python executable])
+
 AC_ARG_WITH([python],
 	    AS_HELP_STRING([--with-python=PATH],
 			   [specify path to Python interpreter]),