[Python-Dev] Please give this patch for building bsddb a try

[Greg Ward]

On 11 June 2002, Martin v. Loewis said:
> It actually only requires different init functions. To support that
> with distutils, you need to tell distutils to generate different
> object files from the same source file, which is probably not
> supported out of the box.

In theory:

  setup(...
        ext_modules=[Extension("foo1", ["foo.c"],
                               define_macros=[('FOOSTYLE', 1)]),
                     Extension("foo2", ["foo.c"],
                               define_macros=[('FOOSTYLE', 2)])])

should work.  See
  http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/setup-script.html#SECTION000330000000000000000

Untested, YMMV, etc.

        Greg
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