Distutils is learning slowly, but this is about the setup.py that's used
to build CPython's own extension modules (everything in
lib/python3.8/lib-dynload).
Questions about building third-party packages go to distutils-sig, not
python-dev :)
Cheers,
Steve
On 19Mar2020 2034, Ivan Pozdeev via
Last time I checked, distutils didn't support compilation for anything but the
running Python instance, nor was it intended to. Should it?
If not, the efforts look misplaced, you should rather use a toolchain that
does...
On 19.03.2020 23:22, Steve Dower wrote:
So over on https://bugs.python.or
So over on https://bugs.python.org/issue22699 I've been talking to
myself as I figure out all the ways that cross-compiling (on Ubuntu,
targeting another Linux distro via an SDK) fails.
In short, it's either because sysconfig can't provide details about any
CPython install other than the curre
