Hi there,
I'm trying to induce zc.buildout's zc.recipe.egg:custom recipe to build
a library (lxml) against C libraries (libxml2, libxslt) installed in a
custom place, i.e. as parts, such as parts/libxml2/include and
parts/libxml2/lib.
I thought I had that working before and even blogged about it, but it
turns out that something's not entirely right yet.
Right now I'm struggling to actually see an 'include-dirs' directive to
have any effect on what's passed along to the C-compiler (namely the -I)
option. It doesn't. After some research I think I've figured out why.
I've installed lxml as a development egg, and somehow it always gets
built the default way. The custom egg's install code is reached, but
only when it's too late and lxml is already built. Therefore any special
options such as include-dirs and library-dirs are never passed, as lxml
has already been created.
I figure lxml gets created automatically and not through the custom
recipe as I have it listed as a develop egg in the [buildout] section.
What to do about this?
Regards,
Martijn
