onefang <onefang_devuan@???> writes:

> That reminds me of why I gave up on Ardour. While trying to get the
> latest version built, I noticed the Python build script has some sort of
> binary blob added at the end.

That's the one-file version of the waf build system. It's a pain because
it makes it difficult to patch (waf tends to be broken in various ways),
but you can delete it and use a system version of waf instead.

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Adam Sampson <ats@???>                         <http://offog.org/>