[Python-Dev] Please give this patch for building bsddb a try

[Thomas Heller]

From: "Greg Ward" <gward@python.net>
> On 11 June 2002, Martin v. Loewis said:
> > It actually only requires different init functions. To support that
> > with distutils, you need to tell distutils to generate different
> > object files from the same source file, which is probably not
> > supported out of the box.
> 
> In theory:
> 
>   setup(...
>         ext_modules=[Extension("foo1", ["foo.c"],
>                                define_macros=[('FOOSTYLE', 1)]),
>                      Extension("foo2", ["foo.c"],
>                                define_macros=[('FOOSTYLE', 2)])])
> 
> should work.
But not in practice, IIRC.

Because the build process for foo2 will see that foo.o
is up to date already.

Thomas