On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Maurits van Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I see that you can add specify some custom build settings for packages with > C-extensions: > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.egg#creating-eggs-with-extensions-needing-custom-build-settings > > The options you can pass are limited though. In my case for the InformixDB > package I want to pass '--esql-threadlib = posix' to the build process. > Currently this is not possible. > > Is there a reason why only the current hardcoded options (like include-dirs) > are available for customizing? It looks like it should be possible to > change the zc.recipe.egg code to look for other options and pass them to the > build_ext call. The only thing that might be tricky is to make a difference > between options in the buildout part that should be passed to build_ext and > options that have a totally different meaning and should be ignored by > build_ext. > > Would this be a good addition to zc.recipe egg?
Probably. > I could create a branch and > try it. That should be a branch of zc.buildout, right? Yes. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
