meson: stop discovering native version of Python

When Python features are enabled we search both for a native and
non-native version of Python. This is wrong though: we don't use Python
in our build process, so there is no need to search for it in the first
place.

There is one location where we use the native version of Python, namely
when deciding whether or not we want to wire up git-p4(1). This check is
invalid though, as we shouldn't check for the build host to have Python,
but for the target host.

Fix this invalid check to use the non-native version of Python and stop
searching for a native version of Python altogether.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 596f5ac7110ebf608ced79dc335226d10a09b4a8..8026a064c978cdd549444b74ec2567a4db616ab6 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -866,9 +866,11 @@ if host_machine.system() == 'cygwin' or host_machine.system() == 'windows'
 endif
 build_options_config.set_quoted('X', executable_suffix)
 
-python = import('python').find_installation('python3', required: get_option('python'))
-target_python = find_program('python3', native: false, required: python.found())
-if python.found()
+# Python is not used for our build system, but exclusively for git-p4.
+# Consequently we only need to determine whether Python is available for the
+# build target.
+target_python = find_program('python3', native: false, required: get_option('python'))
+if target_python.found()
   build_options_config.set('NO_PYTHON', '')
 else
   libgit_c_args += '-DNO_PYTHON'
@@ -1979,7 +1981,7 @@ if perl_features_enabled
   subdir('perl')
 endif
 
-if python.found()
+if target_python.found()
   scripts_python = [
     'git-p4.py'
   ]
@@ -2190,7 +2192,7 @@ summary({
   'iconv': iconv.found(),
   'pcre2': pcre2.found(),
   'perl': perl_features_enabled,
-  'python': python.found(),
+  'python': target_python.found(),
 }, section: 'Auto-detected features')
 
 summary({