Re: [xml] Re: libxml2-2.6.11 -- detection of Python in configure

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:40:14PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Tres wrote:
>
> > I don't know the answer to that question, but in general it would be 
> > optimal to ask the Python in question wheere its include files were, 
> > rather than trying to guess the location.  The apposite function is 
> > 'distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc':
>
> >    def get_python_inc(plat_specific=0, prefix=None):
> >        """Return the directory containing installed Python header files.
>
> >        If 'plat_specific' is false (the default), this is the path to the
> >        non-platform-specific header files, i.e. Python.h and so on;
> >        otherwise, this is the path to platform-specific header files
> >        (namely pyconfig.h).
>
> >        If 'prefix' is supplied, use it instead of sys.prefix or
> >        sys.exec_prefix -- i.e., ignore 'plat_specific'.
> >        """
>
> Would be great to add s.th. like this also for the python library. It is
> needed to add it to the libxml2mod_la_LIBADD flag for systems where it
> is needed to specify the python library when linking this module
> (no-undefined symbols allowed on Windows).  Therefore on Cygwin the
> libxml2 python module build always fails because of undefined
> references because the auto configury doesn't add the needed libpython
> to the libxml2mod_la_LIBADD flag.

  I take portability patches, but knowing I can only test them on Linux
be careful !

Daniel

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