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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 5:07=E2=80=AFPM Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > If you really insist you could print a message telling > the user there's another Python version on their system that may work, There is also precedent for this in the kernel already, e.g. for Rust, we do the warning thing (or error) depending on what we versions we find etc. The user is the one expected to fix the call to `make` and/or fix their environment if needed. Cheers, Miguel