[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Makefile: Add ovsdb-doc to distribution tar ball.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Jul 31 03:45:14 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 07:31:48PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> Certain platforms like xenserver do not have the latest
> python libraries that are needed by ovsdb-doc (which in-turn
> creates ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5). When we run 'make dist' and
> copy over the tar ball to xenserver ddk environemt, we
> already include ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5. But the absence of
> ovsdb-doc results in an attempt to regenrate ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5
> and that fails because of the missing python libraries.
> 
> We work-around the problem by including the ovsdb-doc as part
> of the distribution tar ball.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

If we're going to do this then I think we need to build ovsdb-doc in the
source directory and run it from the source directory, like the other
targets in the makefiles that include $(srcdir) at the beginning of the
line.



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