[MERGE] Trivial Makefile fix

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Tue Mar 20 23:33:54 GMT 2007


Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:10:04AM +1100 I heard the voice of
> Robert Collins, and lo! it spake thus:
>> Why dont we just make setup.py be +x again?
> 
> Well, that's another option, but considering that we 'python setup.py'
> every other invocation of it in the Makefile, it should probably be
> consistentalized[0] there anyway, whether we re-+x or no.  So I went
> for the minimum.
> 
> 
> [0] It is so a word.  I said so.  Order in Council, this date, et
>     cetera et cetera...
> 
> 

Because on Win32 you can install mingw32 and have "make clean". But it
only works if you use "python setup.py" rather than "./setup.py".

Not to say we *shouldn't* make setup.py executable again.

John
=:->




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