On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 05:39:22PM +0100, Damien Millescamps wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 05:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > This is about Automake, not Autoconf.
> > Rules that update the source directory are appropriate to update files
> > that are distributed.  If you disagree, then feel free to report a bug
> > to the Automake maintainers that, if you update "configure.ac" or
> > "Makefile.am" or a Texinfo file, then "configure" and "Makefile.in" and
> > the Info files get updated in the source directory.
> >
> 
> Oops, yes, that's right.
> But this rule ends up in a Makefile, so in the end, the building results
> in modifying the source tree when not using the result of a make dist.
> 
> Note that I am OK with that, but since you proposed to remove this file
> from the distribution, then there is no longer the need for generating
> it in the source directory when building in a separate directory.
> 
> Could you confirm that to me ?

Yes.

> > OK.  I'd take a patch to do that.  I'd need to go verify that the
> > XenServer DDK really has Python, but I'm reasonably sure.
> >
> 
> Ok, I can add a check for python 2 (the python script doesn't seem
> python3 compliant).

Hmm, that's too bad, it might be best to fix it.

> I just checked on XenServer DDK 6.0.0 and there is python 2.4.3
> installed. So the requirements should be met.

Thanks.
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