[Python-Dev] Adding directories to configure.in for fink? (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Jul 16 11:25:39 CEST 2004

"Jack" == Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> writes:

Jack> But I'm not too thrilled with fink and /sw support in
Jack> general: it's just too easy to build an executable or plugin
Jack> module that doesn't work on other machines (if you have fink
Jack> stuff installed and the other machine doesn't). And while
Jack> this is uncommon on most unix machines it's much more common
Jack> on the Mac.

If you're saying that you think Python should ignore Fink in both configure and setup.py, I tend to agree, although I'm a Fink user. Mostly I use Fink sources; they take care of it.

Jack> Could we add a configure flag --with[out]-fink that governs
Jack> adding /sw to search paths in both configure and setup.py,
Jack> or is that overkill?

If you're going to do this for Fink, don't you want to do it for DarwinPorts too? XEmacs's configure has a --site-prefixes switch such that --site-prefixes=/sw does both --site-includes=/sw/include and --site-libraries=/sw/lib. This handles both Fink and DarwinPorts (and anythign else that might come along) in a sensible way. Isn't that a generic autoconf feature?

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