Re: [xml] Some tarball questions

[Mike Hommey <mh glandium org>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:54:28PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Is there any particular reason to distribute files generated during 
> > build within the releases tarballs ? I particularly think about the 
> > python/libxml2-py.c file, which, interestingly, doesn't even have the 
> > same contents during the build that the one provided in the tarball.
> > If there's no reason for that, I'll provide a patch to the Makefile.am 
> > to avoid its distribution.
>
>
>   Because it is needed when building the libxml2-python tarball.

What do you mean ? There's a special target in the Makefiles to create a 
libxml2-python tarball ? Then it may not be needed to include the .c 
file in the libxml2 tarball.

> Now if you get a different content, it's a problem, unless you specified
> some configuration options which led to that difference.

The only configure options are:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.3

And it definitely leads to a different file. I didn't investigate in 
which way it is different, though.

Mike