[Python-Dev] Directions for reproducing the coredump (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 07:50:57 -0400

M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:

> But this reminds me. There's way too much hand-hacking in the Setup > mechanism. It wouldn't be hard to enhance the Setup format to support > #if/#endif so that config.c generation could take advantage of > configure tests. That way, Setup could have constructs in it like > this: > > #if defined(CURSES) > #if defined(linux) > curses cursesmodule.c -lncurses > #else > curses cursesmodule.c -lcurses -ltermcap > #endif > #endif > > I'm willing to do and test this.

This would be a cool thing to have :-) Definitely +1 from me if it's done in a portable way. (Not sure how you would get this to run without the C preprocessor though -- and Python's Makefile doesn't provide any information on how to call it in a platform independent way. It's probably cpp on most platforms, but you never know...)

Ah. The Makefile may not provide this information -- but I believe configure can be made to!

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