[Python-Dev] setup.py and cross-compiling (original) (raw)

Ed Swierk eswierk at arastra.com
Mon Jul 24 19:20:34 CEST 2006


I'm cross-compiling Python using uClibc buildroot, which installs target include files and libraries to a directory like ~/toolchain rather than /usr. I couldn't figure out any way to convincing the top-level python/setup.py to look in ~/toolchain instead of /usr when detecting what modules to build.

I decided to hack up setup.py so that an optional root directory (passed via an environment variable) is prepended to all the hardcoded paths like "/usr/include", "/lib", "/lib64", and so on.

Am I missing an easier solution to this problem? I'm happy to post my patch to setup.py if anyone is interested.

--Ed



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