- Issue #16262: fix out-of-src-tree builds, if mercurial is not installed.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c6223f6..708a0e1 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -645,8 +645,8 @@
 INSTALL_DATA
 INSTALL_SCRIPT
 INSTALL_PROGRAM
-HAS_PYTHON
-DISABLE_ASDLGEN
+PYTHON
+ASDLGEN
 HAS_HG
 HGBRANCH
 HGTAG
@@ -5281,16 +5281,17 @@
 fi
 
 
-DISABLE_ASDLGEN=""
-# Extract the first word of "python", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy python; ac_word=$2
+for ac_prog in python$PACKAGE_VERSION python3 python
+do
+  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if ${ac_cv_prog_HAS_PYTHON+:} false; then :
+if ${ac_cv_prog_PYTHON+:} false; then :
   $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
 else
-  if test -n "$HAS_PYTHON"; then
-  ac_cv_prog_HAS_PYTHON="$HAS_PYTHON" # Let the user override the test.
+  if test -n "$PYTHON"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_PYTHON="$PYTHON" # Let the user override the test.
 else
 as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
 for as_dir in $PATH
@@ -5299,7 +5300,7 @@
   test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
     for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
   if { test -f "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" && $as_test_x "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; }; then
-    ac_cv_prog_HAS_PYTHON="found"
+    ac_cv_prog_PYTHON="$ac_prog"
     $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
     break 2
   fi
@@ -5307,22 +5308,26 @@
   done
 IFS=$as_save_IFS
 
-  test -z "$ac_cv_prog_HAS_PYTHON" && ac_cv_prog_HAS_PYTHON="not-found"
 fi
 fi
-HAS_PYTHON=$ac_cv_prog_HAS_PYTHON
-if test -n "$HAS_PYTHON"; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $HAS_PYTHON" >&5
-$as_echo "$HAS_PYTHON" >&6; }
+PYTHON=$ac_cv_prog_PYTHON
+if test -n "$PYTHON"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $PYTHON" >&5
+$as_echo "$PYTHON" >&6; }
 else
   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
 $as_echo "no" >&6; }
 fi
 
 
-if test $HAS_HG != found -o $HAS_PYTHON != found
-then
-    DISABLE_ASDLGEN="@echo hg: $HAS_HG, python: $HAS_PYTHON! cannot run \$(srcdir)/Parser/asdl_c.py #"
+  test -n "$PYTHON" && break
+done
+test -n "$PYTHON" || PYTHON="not-found"
+
+if $PYTHON = not-found; then
+    ASDLGEN="@echo python: $PYTHON! cannot run \$(srcdir)/Parser/asdl_c.py #"
+else
+    ASDLGEN="$PYTHON"
 fi