[Distutils] Fwd: distutil command lines

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Il lun, 2003-08-04 alle 10:11, Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon ha scritto:
> 
>>Most of the configuration machinery is already available in distutils 
>>(via "python setup.py config"), so you may not need to run 
>>autoconf/configure at all. In one of my software projects, I was able to 
>>get rid of the autoconf/configure stuff altogether by using the 
>>corresponding distutils routines. These are much easier to use than 
>>autoconf/configure, and also guarantees that you are using the same 
>>compiler and compiler options for the config stage and the build stage. 
> 
> 
> this is another big problem of distutils. how can I tell distutils to
> *not* use compiler flags from python build but my own? for example, i
> use assert in devel builds and i don't want NDEBUG to be defined but i
> get it from a default python 2.3 build (on debian). i know i can rebuild
> a whole python and then use that for my devel builds but is not handy at
> all.

It should be possible to undefine NDEBUG using the CFLAGS
environment variable. Have a look at distutils/sysconfig.py:
customize_compiler().

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