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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Jul 16 15:57:11 CEST 2004

Brett Cannon <bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

I discovered that when compiling for readline against a Fink install a warning was spit out about the lack of a function definition. Turned out a function that #ifdef'ed a macro was not being triggered because configure.in was not catching the header file in /sw/lib for readline.

Since /sw is already looked at by setup.py, is there any way to have configure.in do it as well so as to have some consistency? Or is prepending LDFLAGS=/sw/lib the only way? If so, does it warrant mentioning in the README?

If you take /sw/lib out of setup.py and then run

$ LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib ./configure

does setup.py still find goodies in /sw? If not, it should .

I'm definitely in the 'if I want fink I'll ask for it' camp (and 99% of the time I don't and won't). Every time I check something into Python I have to be careful to not check in my local changes to setup.py that comment this stuff out...

Cheers, mwh

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