[Python-Dev] Where is this flag coming from? (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@python.org
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:30:35 -0400

"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

GvR> Maybe we should be more conservative and add this option only
GvR> for Solaris?

That was one suggestion I made when we talked about it last. Sounds like it's probably the right approach to whitelist the platforms we know are broken without it. I'm running a test on SF's compile farm Solaris machine now.

GvR> How does one detect Solaris in setup.py?  How about this
GvR> patch (on top of the above one, not replacing it)?

That's what I'm trying.

GvR> I hope that Skip/Barry can test this on MacOS X and Martin on
GvR> Solaris!

I'll try OSX momentarily.

GvR> Note: the 2.3 setup.py contains other uses of
GvR> runtime_library_dirs, which probably need to be treated the
GvR> same way.

But maybe not. If you install any modern BerkeleyDB from source it always sticks it in a non-standard location. Hmm, maybe a blacklist is more useful for this one? Jeez this stuff sucks.

GvR> Skip, can you cook up patches there?  (The 2.2.2
GvR> fix for ssl also needs to be forward-ported!)

Right, sorry, I'll do that if Guido's changes pans out for Solaris, Linux, and OSX.

(Side note: I think I will have a few more minor patches for the email package, which I'll try to get into 2.2.2 tonight, if my cold will lay low for a few hours.)

-Barry