[Distutils] FreeBSD

[Joe Van Andel]

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to port stuff from Win32 to FreeBSD. Distutils is fine with
> win32, but can I use it with freebsd? I notice that earlier methods used
> a universal makefile and Setup.in and involved a lot of technology ie
> libtool etc etc

I use distutils on Linux and it works fine for building extensions to
Python.  Since distutils uses Python code, and doesn't rely on make or
libtools, I think it should work fine on FreeBSD.

I don't think distutils is going to replace 'make' for general
development in the immediate future, but it works great for building
Python extensions.


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Joe VanAndel  	          
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