[Bug 41448] Installing unit tests

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41448

--- Comment #3 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2011-10-10 10:34:39 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > You should not rely on the python executable to be /usr/bin/python. I think
> > that AM_PATH_PYTHON provides some magic to detect the python executable.
> 
> AM_PATH_PYTHON sets $(PYTHON). In Gabble only, $(TEST_PYTHON) is also relevant.

AM_PATH_PYTHON's killer feature is that if you know better than the build
system (e.g. you're in Scratchbox, so /usr/bin/python looks like Python 2.5 but
if you try running it it magically becomes Python 2.3), you can override it
with "./configure PYTHON=/opt/really/python" or whatever.

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