Re: [PATCH] mingw: disable Python

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be superior to set
>
>        PYTHON_PATH =

Yes, I think it would. I've tested it (I've got Python 2.6 installed
in c:\Python26\, so with your fix I can re-enable it by setting
"PYTHON_PATH=/c/Python26/python.exe" in config.mak.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
>> Erik Faye-Lund schrieb:
>> > Python is not commonly installed on Windows machines, so
>> > we should disable it there by default.
>> >
>> > --- a/Makefile
>> > +++ b/Makefile
>> > @@ -1027,6 +1027,7 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
>> > +   NO_PYTHON = YesPlease
>>
>> I'm worried that with this solution it is impossible to re-enable Python
>> in config.mak (how do you undefine a Makefile variable?);

> How about
>
>        NO_PYTHON=
>
> in config.mak?
>

That doesn't work for me, at least not out of the box. NO_PYTHON is
still defined, it's just defined to an empty string. I guess we could
change to Makefile to accept empty NO_PYTHON as enabled, but since
Hannes' suggestion works fine, I think I'll stick with it, even if
it's a little inconsistent with the other stuff in the MinGW-section
of Makefile.

I'll resend a bit later.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund