Build bugs in Python 2.2.1?

[DIG]

Hi, Martin v. Loewis !

 On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 07:39:13PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> > Jonathan Hogg <jonathan at onegoodidea.com> writes:
>
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> > An improvement for me would be being able to do:
> > 
> >     % CFLAGS=... LDFLAGS=... \
> >       ./configure --with-ssl-dir=... --with-dbm-dir=...
> > 
> > and have everything compiled with consistent compiler flags and have the
> > corresponding modules compiled against the specified libraries.
> 
> You have to be more precise than that. How exactly do you expect the
> setting of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to be used? Completely ignoring them
> throughout would also be "consistent".

You know, even randomly ignoring them would also be "consistent".

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> I doubt many people would consider the addition of tons of --with-
> flags as an improvement.

There is nice place for them -- something like sh-based Build.


Regards,

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DIG (Dmitri I GOULIAEV)