On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:58:56 -0700, Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
wrote:
The other option could be to enable support for static linking so as to
make the egg a reasonably self-sufficient binary (eg: lxml's --static
flag to setup.py)
Just to throw more in the mix -- this option is totally ad hoc in lxml,
which means it's hard to handle in an installer like easy_install or
pip. That is, there's no good way to do "easy_install --static lxml"
(it's more possible in pip, but still quite awkward).
Maybe we can standardize the ``--static`` flag for setup.py and
installers? The benefit of this is that builders and installers can
support a static build feature without having to hack build scripts for
specific packages (Currently PyPM's backend maintains custom code for
building such special packages).
Examples of usage::
$ python setup.py build --static install
$ easy_install --static lxml
$ pip install --install-option="--static" pip
-srid
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