Choosing a new build system for Samba

[yaberger at ca.ibm.com]

Volker Lendecke wrote:
< For the non-merged Samba 3 server I would like to maintain
< the ability to build it without python for as long as
< possible. Even if it means to maintain a separate
< configure.in/Makefile.in I think it is worth it. It does not
< happen on a weekly basis, but I frequently go to customers
< with weird platforms where it is extremely hard to even
< download the samba tarfile. Being forced to download and
< build python to compile Samba will make my job a lot more
< difficult in many situations.

I would *really* appreciate to be able to build samba without having to 
maintain a python package on my AIX systems.

Yannick Bergeron
yaberger at ca.ibm.com
IT Specialist
AIX / Samba / Load Balancer / DCE/DFS / SCM / Apache / Security / Perl 
scripting / etc.