How to tell exo where to find "suitable Python interpreter" on FreeBSD?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jud wrote:
>>>The python-devel package is installed (Python version 2.5).
>>
>>Ehm, python-devel? Don't you use one of the lang/python* ports?
> 
> It was asking for something more recent than 2.2, and FreeBSD is
> sometimes a bit conservative about versions compared to Linux distros. 
> I was perhaps too enthusiastic about having a recent version.  ;-)

I should have checked first, there's indeed a lang/python-devel port.
But you should be aware that this is an experimental snapshot and
there's no warranty that pygtk/pyexo will work properly with 2.5. I'd
suggest to use lang/python as that's always the last "known to be
stable" version.

>>>I'm guessing the error results from something pretty elementary, and
>>>would much appreciate learning what to do from here, or where to find
>>>the relevant information.
>>
>>The AM_PATH_PYTHON() macro fails:
>>
>>http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Python.html
>>http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/automake/m4/python.m4?rev=1.20&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=automake
>>
>>This usually means that your python interpreter binary name is not in
>>the list of checked binary names (the _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST). You
>>can work around this problem by setting the environment variable PYTHON
>>to the name of your python interpreter.
> 
> Thanks - I look forward to trying Thunar.

Note that you don't need python to run Thunar. You can compile libexo
with --disable-python to disable the check completely.

> Jud

Benedikt