[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] Makefiles: Stop distributing files because building them requires Python.

Alex Wang alexw at nicira.com
Mon Jun 22 17:50:55 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> A long time ago, the Open vSwitch build did not depend on Python (whereas
> the runtime did), so the "make dist" based distribution included the
> results of Python build tools.  Later, the build began building on Python,
> but the distribution still included some of those results, because no one
> had gone to the trouble of changing them.  This commit changes the
> Makefiles not to distribute Python-generated files but instead to just
> generate them at build time.
>

Could you explain more on "Later, the build began building on Python"?

Curious about how we build now

Thanks,
Alex Wang,



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