Issue 999767: Setup.local ignored by setup.py (original) (raw)

This applies to Python 2.2.x, 2.3.x, and 2.4a1.

Platforms seem to be all Unix flavors.

I have zlib, readline, and Tk in an unusual location. There are also often older versions in the usual locations (/usr/local/lib, etc.). I put -L and -I flags pointing to the desired location of these libraries in entries for the appropriate extension modules in Setup.local, per the README. I specify all three extension modules as shared .

When I build, the extension modules I specify in Setup.local get built twice: once directly from the Makefile, with the flags I request in Setup.local, then again from setup.py's build_ext phase, with the default flags. The second build is what's installed, so I end up using the wrong version of libz, libreadline, and libtk .

The problem appears to be around line 152 of setup.py (CVS revision 1.190). There is code to ignore modules defined in Modules/Setup, but not modules defined in Modules/Setup.local .

I'm not familiar with the text_file.TextFile class, so there may be a better way to do this, but one the fix is to loop over ['Modules/Setup', 'Modules/Setup.local'] rather than only reading Modules/Setup.