On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:10:29PM -0700, Jerry DeLapp wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2005 05:56, Sean Dague wrote: > > The very first parts of this are in now. Before running make, you must run > > ./configure from CVS. To make people's lives easier I did check in > > configure, and not just the autoconf files that will generate it (though > > they are there too, in the autoconf dir). > > > > Today it does 2 things of value: > > > > Figures out where python is, and sets that (replacing a shell command in > > the master makefile) > > Python? Are we using that now? > > Seriously, though, the *only* thing that needs python is mklibs, and I think > mklibs has dragged us into the weeds as far as build correctness goes (see my > reply to your 64 bit post). I'd rather see us move towards a build > environment that doesn't need mklibs.
If you've got patches that make it all work without mklibs, I'm sure that
would be considered. mklibs is a non trivial piece of code to replace, and
it really does to the right things if it told where to get them from.
-Sean
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