[Mailman-Developers] [PATCH v2] Smaller, cleaner --with-python patch

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:17:42 -0400


>>>>> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:

    BG> This new patch makes a temporary build/ top-level subdirectory
    BG> when ./configure is run, and uses a bit of autoconf magic to
    BG> macro-expand bin/newlist to build/bin/newlist.  This works
    BG> beautifully; the Makefile.in files in various directories just
    BG> had to be modified to use ../build/bin (etc.) as a prefix to
    BG> the filename to be installed on a make install.

Hi Ben, thanks this seems much more acceptable, although I'll reserve
final judgement until I actually apply the patch and give it a drive
<wink>.  If it pans out, I'll include it in the next alpha --
hopefully this weekend -- and if not, I'll definitely give you
feedback about it.

Thanks,
-Barry