[Pythonmac-SIG] autoconf and distutils

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 5, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Mark Asbach wrote:

> we're trying to port an open source application that includes an 
> embedded python interpreter. I've still got troubles with the Mac OS X 
> specific framework builds and my autoconf script.
>
> What can I do to get information on compiler and linker parameters 
> necessary to compile my custom interpreter? On conventional UNIX 
> installs I will need "-L/usr/local/lib/python2.x/config -lpython2.x" 
> while I have to use "-framework Python" with framework builds. It's 
> messy to search paths and guess from the files present, which one is 
> the case. Unfortunately, I couldn't find detailed documentation of the 
> distutils, where I would search for information like this.
>
> The best solution would be a set of python scripts that would give the 
> desired flags for the interpreter it is run on. This way I could 
> provide a "--with-python=/mypath/bin/pythonX.Y" configuration option 
> and have the rest detected automatically.

grep "^LINKFORSHARED" `python -c "import sys;print 
'%s/lib/python%d.%d/config/Makefile' % (sys.prefix,sys.version_info[0], 
sys.version_info[1])"` | cut -d = -f 2

distutils probably has a better way for getting at this, though :)

-bob
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