[Pythonmac-SIG] Another build question: ssl?

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, nov 22, 2002, at 20:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Dan Wolfe wrote:

> 2) Is there any reason in particular that fine_file() function returns 
> a directory if found on the additional paths parameter? None of the 
> setup.py uses of it seem to make any usage of the additional 
> information - some - like the lzip library and find_module_name() for 
> example just seem to reconstruct the path... from a distutil newbie's 
> perspective, it seems like this is a latent bug just waiting to happen 
> because a directory was return instead of a path to the file... of 
> course it could just be that it then includes the entire directory 
> instead....

This could have been designed in this way with runtime loader search 
paths in mind. On MacOSX this doesn't make a difference (if you give 
the full pathname to the linker it'll find the file at runtime) but it 
may be different on other platforms.
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