[Pythonmac-SIG] Question about "setup.py build"

[Daniel Lord]

Thanks Bob, coming through as always.

Daniel

On Jan 24, 2007, at 14:26, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On 1/24/07, Daniel Lord <daniellord at mac.com> wrote:
>> I admit to being a novice at this yet, but I couldn't find anything
>> relevant to this issue on-line:
>>
>> I am trying to build a version of pysqlite that works with sqllite3 :
>> 1. Apple's installed version doesn't work with the latest so I
>> reinstalled
>> 2. sqllite3 won't build shared libs for universal binaries (typical
>> of a lot of linux/UNIX build since the developers never have that
>> problem except on OS X)
>
> Why would you want shared libs anyway? I'm pretty sure the Mac build
> script that comes with Python 2.5 (Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py)
> will automatically download SQLite and compile it universally as a
> static lib. Take a look in there.
>
>> 3. so I built Intel-only but....
>> 4. pysqlite keeps trying to build a universal build (CFLAGS="-O -g -
>> isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc"; etc.
>> etc.) with "python setup.py build"
>> 5. But nowhere in the setup.py or setup.cfg  is that set. I
>> explicitly unset CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to ensure it wasn't coming from
>> there.
>>
>> So where is it being set? By the Python build? Where? I jsut need a
>> little pointer or two and I'll do the rest. Thanks.
>
> The same place that everything else that distutils knows about is
> coming from, the Makefile in your Python library that was created when
> Python was built: lib/python2.4/config/Makefile
>
> -bob