Ticket #151 (defect)

Many scripts have #!/usr/bin/env python at the top, and this has two problems:

• python may be installed as python2.4 (e.g. on pkgsrc)
• GNU Radio installs python libraries (.py and shlibs) into the detected python's site directory, and thus scripts that use such libraries must use the same python version, rather than changing when the system default, if any, changes.

Thus, it is desired to bind the script to the detected python version at build/install time.

There are at least two plausible approaches:

• For each script foo, move it to foo.in, and start it with @PYTHON@ and add the script to configure.ac. This is conceptually easy, but a lot of work and annoying.
• Create a new install script (perhaps via a .in variant and configure) that performs this substitution at install time, and change */Makefile.am to use the new script.