Re: gen-make.py

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:53:27AM -0500, B. W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi> writes:
>...
> > Um. Is there a reason we cannot run gen-make.py when ./configure is
> > run - to generate the Makefile.in before Makefile is generated from
> > that?
>
> Well, we'd have to account for people who download the bootstrap
> tarball and don't have python installed--I don't want to make python a
> requirement just to bootstrap.

That is exactly why it is run at autogen time. We state that packagers [who
use/run autogen] must have Python. End-users [who run configure] do not
require Python.

I would suggest we avoid requiring Python during the configure process.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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