Python required?

[Dan Nicholson]

On 4/13/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> >
> > 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?

Yeah, that's fine. He's found an equivalent way to trick
AM_PATH_PYTHON so it doesn't error, which seems a lot easier than
creating another macro. Thanks for the confirmation.

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Dan