[ python-Bugs-960325 ] "require <feature>" configure option

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Bugs item #960325, was opened at 2004-05-25 15:07
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Category: Build
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Hallvard B Furuseth (hfuru)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: "require <feature>" configure option

Initial Comment:
I'd like to be able to configure Python so that
Configure or Make will fail if a particular
feature is unavailable.  Currently I'm concerned
with SSL, which just gets a warning from Make:

  building '_ssl' extension
  *** WARNING: renaming "_ssl" since importing it
failed: ld.so.1: ./python: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.8: open
failed: No such file or directory

Since that's buried in a lot of Make output, it's
easy to miss.  Besides, for semi-automatic builds
it's in any case good to get a non-success exit
status from the build process.

Looking at the Make output, I see the bz2 extension
is another example where this might be useful.

Maybe the option would simply be '--enable-ssl',
unless you want that to merely try to build with
ssl.

Or '--require=ssl,bz2,...'.


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Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy)
Date: 2004-06-01 22:07

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Yes, this is not a PEP item.  I didn't notice Feature Reqest 
since it is redundant vis a vis the separate RFE list.


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Comment By: Hallvard B Furuseth (hfuru)
Date: 2004-06-01 14:13

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I marked it with Group: Feature Request.
Not a bug, but a quality of implementation issue.
It seemed more proper here than as a PEP.

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Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy)
Date: 2004-06-01 13:58

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Are you claiming that there is an actual bug, or is this merely 
an RFE (Request For Enhancement) item?

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