Introduction

FTP Team decided it is not allowed to ship waf "binary" as-is into source tarballs available in main component of the archive.

waf "binary" is basically a Python script with an embedded bzip2 tarball unpacked at runtime. A more detailed explanation about it is available here.

How to unpack waf

Here is a quick-and-dirty recipe to generate a unpacked waf instance in your source tarball: 

./waf --help &> /dev/null
mv .waf-*/waflib waflib
sed -i '/^#==>$/,$d' waf
rmdir .waf-*

Also, you will need to remove generated .pyc files during clean phase: 

find waflib -name "*.pyc" -delete