Re: [PATCH] mingw: disable Python

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

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>>> 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 think Dscho is right.  "ifdef FOO" yields (and should yield) false if
> FOO is set to empty.
>

In that case I guess I messed up my test. I'll retest.

Yes, I messed up. "NO_PYTHON=" works like a charm.

So, no repost :)

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund