[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] Makefile: Add ovsdb-doc to distribution tar ball.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 07:53:45AM -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 regenerate 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>

I think this will work.

It might be easier to just rethink the original patch, adding a
--version option to ovsdb-doc.