Support systems which don't have a "python" command. (#386)

Add support for finding an appropriate python command on systems which
don't have "python". Try "python3" and "python2.7".

Fixed #381.

cranelift/test-all.sh

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ else
     needcheck=yes
 fi
 if [ -n "$needcheck" ]; then
-    banner "$(python --version 2>&1), $(python3 --version 2>&1)"
+    banner "Checking python source files"
     "$topdir/lib/codegen/meta/check.sh"
     touch "$tsfile" || echo no target directory
 fi

lib/codegen/build.rs

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ fn main() {
     let target_triple = env::var("TARGET").expect("The TARGET environment variable must be set");
     let cretonne_targets = env::var("CRETONNE_TARGETS").ok();
     let cretonne_targets = cretonne_targets.as_ref().map(|s| s.as_ref());
+    let python = identify_python();
 
     // Configure isa targets cfg.
     match isa_targets(cretonne_targets, &target_triple) {
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ fn main() {
     // Launch build script with Python. We'll just find python in the path.
     // Use -B to disable .pyc files, because they cause trouble for vendoring
     // scripts, and this is a build step that isn't run very often anyway.
-    let status = process::Command::new("python")
+    let status = process::Command::new(python)
         .current_dir(crate_dir)
         .arg("-B")
         .arg(build_script)
@@ -73,6 +74,19 @@ fn main() {
     }
 }
 
+fn identify_python() -> &'static str {
+    for python in &["python", "python3", "python2.7"] {
+        if process::Command::new(python)
+            .arg("--version")
+            .status()
+            .is_ok()
+        {
+            return python;
+        }
+    }
+    panic!("The Cretonne build requires Python (version 2.7 or version 3)");
+}
+
 /// Represents known ISA target.
 #[derive(Copy, Clone)]
 enum Isa {

lib/codegen/meta/check.sh

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ cd "$topdir"
 
 function runif {
     if type "$1" > /dev/null; then
-        echo "   === $1 ==="
+        version=$("$1" --version 2>&1)
+        echo "   === $1: $version ==="
         "$@"
     else
         echo "$1 not found"
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ runif flake8 .
 runif mypy --py2 build.py
 
 # Python unit tests.
-runif python -m unittest discover
+runif python2.7 -m unittest discover
 
 # Then run the unit tests again with Python 3.
 # We get deprecation warnings about assertRaisesRegexp which was renamed in