New submission from Michael Kraus <krausmic...@gmail.com>:

It would be very helpful to have the ability to specify a LIBFFI-PATH during 
Python configuration via

./configure --with-system-ffi=LIBFFI-PATH

We are using the Intel compiler to build Python, NumPy, SciPy, and Cython on a 
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Libffi uses some 128bit int type which is not 
defined by the Intel compiler, thus can't be build with it. 

Unfortunately, the ./configure script, if run with --with-system-ffi looks for 
the ffi includes only in the standard directories (/usr/include, etc.). On our 
cluster, we are not allowed to install into the main system, we can only add 
modules. As there is no libffi coming with SLES and we cannot install it into 
the standard directories, the configure script won't find it. Thus the above 
request.

Best regards,
Michael

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components: Build
messages: 148472
nosy: michael.kraus
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ./configure --with-system-ffi=LIBFFI-PATH
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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