From 041a96276df6da443f6c5a7585a672675c8ac147 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Iustin Pop <iustin@k1024.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:23:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update README about build requirements

---
 Makefile   |  7 ++++---
 README.rst | 14 ++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 35b4344..7089a95 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+PYTHON        = python3
 SPHINXOPTS    = -W
-SPHINXBUILD   = python3 -m sphinx
+SPHINXBUILD   = $(PYTHON) -m sphinx
 DOCDIR        = doc
 DOCHTML       = $(DOCDIR)/html
 DOCTREES      = $(DOCDIR)/doctrees
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ RSTFILES = doc/index.rst doc/module.rst NEWS README.rst doc/conf.py
 all: doc test
 
 $(MODNAME): acl.c
-	./setup.py build_ext --inplace
+	$(PYTHON) ./setup.py build_ext --inplace
 
 $(DOCHTML)/index.html: $(MODNAME) $(RSTFILES)
 	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(DOCHTML)
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ $(DOCHTML)/index.html: $(MODNAME) $(RSTFILES)
 doc: $(DOCHTML)/index.html
 
 dist:
-	fakeroot ./setup.py sdist
+	fakeroot $(PYTHON) ./setup.py sdist
 
 test:
 	@for ver in 2.7 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7; do \
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 24d2f91..f736c16 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -22,13 +22,19 @@ FreeBSD 7 also has quite good support. If any other platform
 implements the POSIX.1e draft, pylibacl can be used. I heard that
 Solaris does, but I can't test it.
 
-- Python 2.7 or newer
-- operating system:
+- Python 2.7 or newer.
+- Operating system:
     - Linux, kernel v2.4 or newer, and the libacl library and
       development packages (all modern distributions should have this,
       under various names); also the file-systems you use must have
-      ACLs turned on, either as a compile or mount option
-    - FreeBSD 7.0 or newer
+      ACLs turned on, either as a compile or mount option.
+    - FreeBSD 7.0 or newer.
+- The sphinx python module, for your python version, if building the
+  documentation.
+
+Note: to build from source, by default, Python 3 is needed. It can
+still be built with Python 2, by calling `make PYTHON=python2`.
+
 
 License
 -------
-- 
2.39.2