[Python-Dev] Directions for reproducing the coredump

[Eric S. Raymond]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
> > But this reminds me.  There's way too much hand-hacking in the Setup
> > mechanism.  It wouldn't be hard to enhance the Setup format to support
> > #if/#endif so that config.c generation could take advantage of
> > configure tests.  That way, Setup could have constructs in it like
> > this:
> > 
> > #if defined(CURSES)
> > #if defined(linux)
> > _curses _cursesmodule.c -lncurses
> > #else
> > _curses _cursesmodule.c -lcurses -ltermcap
> > #endif
> > #endif
> > 
> > I'm willing to do and test this.
> 
> This would be a *cool* thing to have :-) 
> 
> Definitely +1 from me if it's done in a portable way.
> 
> (Not sure how you would get this to run without the C preprocessor
> though -- and Python's Makefile doesn't provide any information
> on how to call it in a platform independent way. It's probably
> cpp on most platforms, but you never know...)

Ah.  The Makefile may not provide this information -- but I believe 
configure can be made to!
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