[Distutils] Question about libraries

[Paul F Dubois]

Yes, there would be no problem if I wanted to build the library solely
for use in a single invocation of distutils. But I have three separate
packages, each with their own setup.py, and they all need to share the
same library.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Heller [mailto:thomas.heller@ion-tof.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:37 AM
> To: Paul F Dubois; distutils-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Question about libraries
> 
> 
> > I want to use distutils to build an ordinary C library for 
> subsequent 
> > use in other parts of my build. I have a setup file that 
> contains this 
> > call to setup:
> > 
> > setup (name = "libcmds",
> >        ...
> >        libraries = [
> >                       ('cdms',
> >                           {'sources': sourcelist,
> >                            'macros': macros,
> >                            'include_dirs': include_dirs,
> >                            'library_dirs': library_dirs,
> >                           }
> >                       ),
> >                   ]
> >  This works and I can build the library libcdms.a, but it is put in 
> > build/temp.linux-i686-2.2, hardly the kind of place I want 
> to refer to 
> > in other parts of my build.
> 
> Isn't this directory automatically appended to the 
> library_dirs by distutils?
> 
> Thomas
>