On 10/14/2012 9:29 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Sunday 14 October 2012 04:49:28 Gregory M. Turner wrote:
"Thirdly" has been addressed ad nauseam in this thread and will be
solved by prepending the LDFLAG rather than appending, or, preferably,
by patching autotools (but only if I can find a simple, low-maintenance
approach that is likely to work without building any new per-platform
matrices or case-statements).
i'm fairly certain this isn't autotools. i've poked around the python build
system before in the past and while it uses autoconf to do platform tests, it
doesn't use automake/libtool. make is used to bootstrap python, and then they
descend into a horrible hack of a custom build system written in python. i
suspect much of the pain you're seeing is coming from that last part.
-mike
I guess I should say "in src_prepare" rather than "in autotools."
Specifically, I was thinking some kind of configure.in patch might be
good, since configure.in seems to churn less than Makefile.in, a good
thing if I want to produce a one-size-fits-all patch.
And, yeah, setup.py is definitely behind all this yucky.
Python clearly has an amazing community, so I hate to say anything
negative... but I sometimes wish they would "build" less and "buy" more.
Anyhow, as everyone knows, bitching and moaning about FOSS is pointless
so I'll stop there and spend my time fixing stuff instead :)
-gmt
