[Python-Dev] distutils doesn't use some compiler options when building (original) (raw)

Akira Kitada akitada at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 18:28:47 CET 2008


Hi,

I encountered a weird problem using distutils. Generally, distutils try to use the same compiler options used for building Python interpreter, but it looks like some of them are omitted sometimes.

See: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py

""" def customize_compiler(compiler): ... if compiler.compiler_type == "unix": (cc, cxx, opt, cflags, ccshared, ldshared, so_ext) =
get_config_vars('CC', 'CXX', 'OPT', 'CFLAGS', 'CCSHARED', 'LDSHARED', 'SO')

    if 'CC' in os.environ:
        cc = os.environ['CC']
    if 'CXX' in os.environ:
        cxx = os.environ['CXX']
    if 'LDSHARED' in os.environ:
        ldshared = os.environ['LDSHARED']
    if 'CPP' in os.environ:
        cpp = os.environ['CPP']
    else:
        cpp = cc + " -E"           # not always
    if 'LDFLAGS' in os.environ:
        ldshared = ldshared + ' ' + os.environ['LDFLAGS']
    if 'CFLAGS' in os.environ:
        cflags = opt + ' ' + os.environ['CFLAGS']
        ldshared = ldshared + ' ' + os.environ['CFLAGS']
    if 'CPPFLAGS' in os.environ:
        cpp = cpp + ' ' + os.environ['CPPFLAGS']
        cflags = cflags + ' ' + os.environ['CPPFLAGS']
        ldshared = ldshared + ' ' + os.environ['CPPFLAGS']

    cc_cmd = cc + ' ' + cflags
    compiler.set_executables(
        preprocessor=cpp,
        compiler=cc_cmd,
        compiler_so=cc_cmd + ' ' + ccshared,
        compiler_cxx=cxx,
        linker_so=ldshared,
        linker_exe=cc)

    compiler.shared_lib_extension = so_ext

"""

Are these logics are intentional or just a bug? If this is intentional behavior, why is that being this way?

Thanks,



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