[Python-ideas] python configure --with-ssl

[Ned Deily]

In article <537A2E5F.4060004 at gmail.com>,
 Pavel Machyniak <machyniak at gmail.com> 
 wrote:
> please add option to python configure for setting custom `openssl`
> installation on python build, eg `--with-ssl=path` as used commonly.
> Otherwise it is difficult to build python with specific `openssl`
> installation/compilation, see eg.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22409092/coredump-when-compiling-python-wit
> h-a-custom-openssl-version.

This sort of request has come up before on the Python bug tracker.  With 
a quick search, I didn't find an exact match for what you request, 
although there might be a more general issue open to allow more control 
over all third-party libraries.  However, there is 
http://bugs.python.org/issue5575 which provides a patch to allow control 
using environment variables rather than configure options.  Feel free to 
open a new issue or comment on this one.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org