[Distutils] [RFC] support configure + make pattern in distutils (or setuptools)

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 01/28/2013 07:12 PM, Manlio Perillo wrote:
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> Il 28/01/2013 19:05, Leonardo Rochael Almeida ha scritto:
>> Sounds nice,
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>> Looks like it could make building distributions based on c-libraries
>> more predictable (think lxml or pymsql), specially when you explicitly
>> want to avoid libraries provided by the system.
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> Right.
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> And if you read the distutils.command.config module source:
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>      # Utility methods for actual "config" commands.  The interfaces are
>      # loosely based on Autoconf macros of similar names.  Sub-classes
>      # may use these freely.
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> I'm curious to know how many Python projects use the config command and
> the Autoconf like API.

IIRC, they are pretty useless since you need to pass the flags again and 
again for every command; e.g.,

python setup.py build_ext --fc-compiler=intel
python setup.py install --prefix=/path/to/dir

(An explicit configuration phase is one of the things Bento attempts to 
do better, http://cournape.github.com/Bento/, )

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