cross-compiling and python

[Matúš Kukan]

Hi Kendy,

On 5 March 2013 14:11, Jan Holesovsky <kendy at suse.cz> wrote:
> Having had a look at what is the python needed for during the build, and
> it seems to me that it is only because of filter/source/svg/js2hxx.py .
>...
> So - I think best would be just to bundle presentation_engine.js to the
> LO installation, and modify SVGFilter::implGenerateScript() [from
> svxexport.cxx] so that it only reads presentation_engine.js from the
> disk.  You'd kill the python-during-build dependency, and additionally
> make the .so that contains it currently 500k smaller ;-)  How does that
> sound?

Not so easy unfortunately :-(
There is also filter/source/config/tools/merge/pyAltFCFGMerge
And don't forget nss/nsinstall.py

Any volunteers ?

But I don't think we need to get rid ourselves of python-build-time dependency.
Surely, at least on Linux and Windows, it is available.

Best,
Matus