[Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Nov 9 20:02:12 CET 2006

Anthony Baxter schrieb:

So we'd now have 3 places to update when things change (setup.py, PCbuild area, SCons)? How does this deal with the problems that autoconf has with cross-compilation? It would seem to me that just fixing the extension module building is a tiny part of the problem... or am I missing something?

I'm not quite sure. I believe distutils is too smart to support cross-compilation. It has its own notion of where to look for header files and how to invoke the compiler; these builtin assumptions break for cross-compilation.

In any case, the patch being contributed uses SCons. If people think this is unmaintainable, this is a reason to reject the patch.

Regards, Martin

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