Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:51:48 -0500 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Problem compiling Numeric-23.0 with latest python-2.2.2-6 In-reply-to: <87heaa21aj.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-followup-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: <20030312175148.GE1532@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <3E6B2B1A DOT 2020606 AT oracle DOT com> <20030309134515 DOT GB1232 AT tishler DOT net> <87k7f84odg DOT fsf AT vzell-de DOT de DOT oracle DOT com> <20030310150526 DOT GF2112 AT tishler DOT net> <87heaa21aj DOT fsf AT vzell-de DOT de DOT oracle DOT com> Volker, On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:29:40AM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Tishler writes: > Jason> Sorry, until others have this problem, you will have to > Jason> debug this yourself. > > OK I found it. > > >From /lib/python2.2/distutils/command/build_ext.py: > > # for extensions under Cygwin Python's library directory must be > # appended to library_dirs > if sys.platform[:6] == 'cygwin': > if string.find(sys.executable, sys.exec_prefix) != -1: > # building third party extensions > self.library_dirs.append(os.path.join(sys.prefix, "lib", "python" + sys.version[:3], "config")) > else: > # building python standard extensions > self.library_dirs.append('.') The above code was submitted to Python's SF patch collector on 2001-Jan-19: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2001-January/003581.html and was committed to Python CVS on 2001-Jan-24: http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470&func=detail&aid=402409 On 2002-Jun-11, the AtheOS port began to leverage it: http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=488073&group_id=5470 > If somebody has /bin in front of /usr/bin in his or her PATH, third > party extensions will fail to build properly when just calling python > setup.py build. AFAICT, you are the only one to notice this issue in over two years. If you feel strongly about the above, then I recommend you submit a patch to Python's SF patch collector to change to the behavior to be more to your liking. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/