Re: Is python required?

Henderson, Michael D wrote:
> I'm compiling subversion 1.0.1 on a Sun box. I notice near the end of the configure that it's looking for python. I see a lot of python scripts, are they needed for full use of subversion? Should I install python, re-configure subversion before I compile and install it?
>

You don't need python to simply run './configure; make'. But you *do*
need python if you want to create 'configure' from 'configure.in'; to
do this, you run './autogen.sh'. Only developers generally do this.
The 1.0.1 source tarball already has a 'configure' script.

./configure is looking for python because it's trying to decide whether
it's able to build the svn-python bindings. Those are totally optional
things.

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Received on Wed Apr 14 02:45:00 2004