On 4/20/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Do the Python bindings not get built by default any more?  You removed
> >> the --disable-python switch so I would guess that they don't.
> >
> > All the bindings are split into separate packages: glib, qt3, python,
> > java. Randy said he would take on the task of handling the bindings.
> > Look a little earlier in this thread.
> >
> > We'd agreed to put the core and bindings on separate pages to keep
> > down the clutter. I think he's planning on having it look like the
> > Perl modules page. Is that alright?
>
> I understood that, but my question remains.  "I am a user that wants to
> build D-Bus/HAL, but I really don't care about the bindings.  I also
> don't have Python installed.  Will the package build OK?"

Yes. The only part python related are the dbus-python bindings. The
only reason you had to add --disable-python before was because the
silly autoconf macro from Python called AM_PATH_PYTHON will bomb if it
doesn't find python.

> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-dbus/general/dbus.html
>
> That is helpful.  I can see a problem with the discussion of the test
> suite though.  It seems incomplete as it says that a special build must
> be made with configure switches, but it doesn't say which switch(es) or
> what the test command it.  I think a better way is to start the section
> and say that a special build is needed if you want to test:
>
> configure --enable-tests && make && make check && make distclean
>
> And then go into the full build instructions.

I actually didn't touch the tests part, but I think what you've
written would work. I saw that they do run the tests on Fedora and
then run make clean, so apparently it's safe to do that. I haven't
actually checked it out, though.

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/dbus/dbus.spec?view=markup

>    -- ruce

Thanks for the comments, ruce :)

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