audit without python?

Nathaniel Husted nhusted at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 17:31:49 UTC 2011


I've hacked together the Makefiles so that audisp does not compile
with Python, but I wouldn't necessarily advise it. My reasons were
primarily to enable audisp to be compiled under Android with limited
functionality (only the AF_Unix socket available).

Cheers,
Nathaniel

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:12:52 PM Jason wrote:
>> Is it possible to compile and use audit without needing python?  If so,
>> how?
>
> I've never considered compiling without python because its so pervasive. You can't
> really have a functioning system without it inless its an appliance. And would you
> want an appliance doing compiles?
>
> You can certainly separate it out after compile in the packaging portion so that
> installing it doesn't drag python in. I suppose the configure and Makefiles can be fixed
> so it does not make python bindings.
>
> -Steve
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