[Distutils] overriding build options

[Keith Jackson (DSD staff)]

That's what I was afraid of. It sure seems like a simple way to override 
the compile options from the python build would be nice.
--keith

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> Keith Jackson (DSD staff) wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I've got what might be a simple question, but I haven't found an 
>> answer yet. The default python build with gcc uses "-Wall" and 
>> "-fstrict-prototypes". I'd like to be able to build extension modules 
>> without these flags. SWIG generated code throws a lot of warnings, as 
>> does the libraries I'm wrapping, and it makes it very hard for users 
>> to see what is actually going on. What is the right way to remove 
>> these from the compile command?
> 
> 
> AFAIK, there is none. These options are read from Python's own
> Makefile in sysconfig.customize_compiler(compiler).
> 
> Of course, you can start subclassing distutils as I did in
> mxSetup.py of the egenix-mx-base package to tweak that API
> into doing whatever you like :-)
> 


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