[ovs-dev] [PATCH] INSTALL: Update build requirements.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Dec 31 22:13:41 UTC 2013


Libtool is now required as of commit 38b7a52b61 (openvswitch: Use libtool
and allow building shared libs).

It seems that a build requirement for Python slipped in a while back, for
generating ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5, and no one complained, so we might as
well make it official.  (That will let us simplify some bits of the build,
too, since they won't have to be conditional on Python anymore, so I'm all
in favor of this change.)

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
---
I thought I sent this out a while ago, but I don't see it in patchwork
or the mailing list archive.

 INSTALL |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c3693f3..3503151 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ you will need the following software:
       libssl is installed, then Open vSwitch will automatically build
       with support for it.
 
+    - Python 2.x, for x >= 4.
+
 To compile the kernel module on Linux, you must also install the
 following.  If you cannot build or install the kernel module, you may
 use the userspace-only implementation, at a cost in performance.  The
@@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ or the database schema, you will also need the following software:
 
     - Automake version 1.10 or later.
 
-    - Python 2.x, for x >= 4.
+    - libtool version 2.4 or later.  (Older versions might work too.)
 
 If you modify the ovsdbmonitor tool, then you will also need the
 following:
-- 
1.7.10.4




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