20 Feb
2001
20 Feb
'01
11:45 p.m.
"TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:
TW> But why provide the --with-python configure option if you end
TW> up having to have python in your path after all ? It would
TW> make more sense if it allowed pointing to a working python
TW> anywhere. I can think of several situations where that might
TW> be desirable, for security or debugging purposes, and only one
TW> of them is "because I run debian" :-)Mostly because I didn't want to have .in files for every script in bin/. It didn't occur to me that a distro would rename the Python executable to something other than `python'. It might be time to autoconf templatize those bin/ scripts.
-Barry