Python required?

[Doug Goldstein]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> 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.
>
What's the trick? For curiosity sake..