Python required?

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 10:34 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 4/13/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 08:05 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > > Currently, HAL's configure will bomb if Python isn't installed. From
> > > what I can tell, though, Python is only used in the device-manager,
> > > which is certainly optional. It seems to my eyes that the reason for
> > > the failure is because the autoconf macro AM_PATH_PYTHON will error if
> > > it doesn't find Python.
> >
> > Python is not needed anymore, no. I think I already removed this from
> > 'master' just after 0.5.9 branched.
> 
> Any chance it could be made optional in the 0.5.9 branch, or should I
> just hack around it? To that effect, is it safe to avoid the Python
> dep in 0.5.9 if the device-manager isn't being built? The real reason
> I'm asking is because the developer of the Linuxfromscratch LiveCD
> wants HAL on there but not Python since he doesn't use it anywhere
> else. Is this possible?

Oh, it's only need for the hal-device-manager; I'd just patch it out of
configure.in and then run autoreconf. Will that work?

      David