[New-bugs-announce] [issue45800] Move expat handling into configure and Makefile

[Christian Heimes]

New submission from Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de>:

Move logic for --with-system-expat out of setup.py into configure and Makefile. This will enable --with-system-expat in Modules/Setup without manual patching.

* Set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for pyexpat and libexpat in configure.
* Build a static libexpat.a from our copy of expat when --with-system-expat is not given
* Either link pyexpat with libexpat.a or system libexpat.

Basically use the same approach as decimal changeset bpo-45798.

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assignee: christian.heimes
components: Build
messages: 406281
nosy: christian.heimes
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Move expat handling into configure and Makefile
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.11

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