Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Update to Makefile.am: use python generation o f register.c i

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:44:28 -0700
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:13:11PM +0200, Biot Olivier wrote:
> BTW as a result, register.c will always be generated using the python
> script, as autogen.sh aborts if python is not available!

Well, it will *if* you're building from CVS; in order to build from CVS,
you need Python in order to generate the NCP dissector file
"packet-ncp2222.c" from "ncp2222.py".

If you're building from a release tarball, however, you don't need to
run autogen.sh, and the release tarball includes "packet-ncp2222.c", so
Python isn't needed to generate it, so it should use the shell script if
Python isn't available.