[Python-Dev] setup.py auto-conf (SSL support in _socket) (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:33:45 +0100

Michael Hudson wrote:

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: > It shouldn't have been this difficult to debug. Surely there must be > some way to tell setup.py not to delete .so's it can't import so we > have a prayer of finding the real problems. Maybe it just shouldn't install the shared libs if they fail to import?

I'm not sure why setup.py is trying to be smart in the first place. A warning is certainly a good idea, but then setup.py should let the user decide what to do about the problem, IMHO.

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