Issue 1081045: readline module doesn't build on MacOSX (original) (raw)

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/41297

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Created on 2004-12-08 02:19 by skip.montanaro, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg23604 - (view)	Author: Skip Montanaro (skip.montanaro) *	Date: 2004-12-08 02:19
Recent changes to either configure or setup.py seem to have conspired to prevent the readline module from building on MacOSX. I configured and built with LDFLAGS='-L/sw/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/sw/include' ../ configure '--prefix=/Users/skip/local' make The relevant readline bits are in /sw/... but the module is not built. The following bits containing /sw grep out of the generated Makefile: INSTALL= /sw/bin/install -c CPPFLAGS= -I. -I$(srcdir)/Include -I/sw/include LDFLAGS= -L/sw/lib CONFIG_ARGS= '--prefix=/Users/skip/local' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib' Assigning to Brett since he touched this most recently. Skip
msg23605 - (view)	Author: Skip Montanaro (skip.montanaro) *	Date: 2004-12-08 02:46
Logged In: YES user_id=44345 More on this... Sticking a print of lib_dirs just before setup.py checks for readline shows that /sw/lib is not in that list.
msg23606 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2004-12-10 19:44
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 I have uploaded a patch to add some debugging output. Can you run make and let me know what it outputs (might need to touch a file to trigger the need for setup.py to execute)? I need to know exactly what the environment variables are set to when they are parsed and what setup.py ends up with for its library and include directories.
msg23607 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2004-12-18 07:56
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 I was able to reproduce the problem of the environment variable returning None for a short time (it for some reason stopped doing that and started to do what I expected). While I could, though, I was able to get the right values using distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var(). The attached file adds a little bit more debugging output and also switches over to using distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var() instead of sys.getenv(). Let me know if that fixes the problem.
msg23608 - (view)	Author: Skip Montanaro (skip.montanaro) *	Date: 2004-12-18 19:59
Logged In: YES user_id=44345 That worked... Thanks... (check it in?)
msg23609 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2004-12-18 20:48
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 Checked in under rev. 1.209 in setup.py .