Building things with setup.py

[Robert Kern]

James Stroud wrote:
> Well I added those arguments to $LDFLAGS, but it seemed like a pretty 
> miserable hack, especially the "-shared" part.

Hmmm. Did you have $LDFLAGS set to anything (or more likely, nothing) before? 
I.e. did you have something like this?

   export LDFLAGS=""
   python setup.py build

If such environment variables are present, I think that numpy.distutils may 
clobber the values that are inferred from the configuration.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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