[Python-Dev] Adding directories to configure.in for fink?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Jul 16, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On 16-jul-04, at 8:03, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>> I discovered that when compiling for readline against a Fink install 
>> a warning was spit out about the lack of a function definition.  
>> Turned out a function that #ifdef'ed a macro was not being triggered 
>> because configure.in was not catching the header file in /sw/lib for 
>> readline.
>>
>> Since /sw is already looked at by setup.py, is there any way to have 
>> configure.in do it as well so as to have some consistency?  Or is 
>> prepending ``LDFLAGS=/sw/lib`` the only way?  If so, does it warrant 
>> mentioning in the README?
>
> Hmm.
> I guess we should really be consistent about this: if we look in /sw 
> for setup.py I guess we should also do it for configure.
>
> But I'm not too thrilled with fink and /sw support in general: it's 
> just too easy to build an executable or plugin module that doesn't 
> work on other machines (if you have fink stuff installed and the other 
> machine doesn't). And while this is uncommon on most unix machines 
> it's much more common on the Mac.
>
> Could we add a configure flag --with[out]-fink that governs adding /sw 
> to search paths in both configure and setup.py, or is that overkill?

And what about DarwinPorts? They use /opt/local by default.

Ronald