From 38c683c17a19bb7119d7334061f18257d9d6ccbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jostein=20Kj=C3=83=C2=B8nigsen?= <jostein@kjonigsen.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:49:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Resolve Python2.7 when executable is not called 'python'.

---
 build.sh | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index fe4c0b01ce60..0d9af84fa1eb 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-PYTHON=${PYTHON:-python}
+# resolve python-version to use
+if [ "$PYTHON" == "" ] ; then
+    if which python >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+       PYTHON=python
+    elif which python2 >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+       PYTHON=python2
+    elif which python2.7 >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+       PYTHON=python2.7
+    else
+       echo "Unable to locate build-dependency python2.x!" 1>&2
+       exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
+# validate python-dependency
+# useful in case of explicitly set option.
+if ! which $PYTHON > /dev/null 2>&1
+then
+   echo "Unable to locate build-dependency python2.x ($PYTHON)!" 1>&2
+   exit 1
+fi
 
 usage()
 {