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

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
There are more subtleties here than I imagined. How about the following V2?

Thanks,
Guru
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