I mean *setup.py* ! ... (more questions)[Re: libraries=['m'] inconfig.py [Re: Python 2.1 alpha 1 released!]]

[Thomas Heller]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at lemburg.com> wrote in message news:mailman.980419470.4109.python-list at python.org...
> "Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
> >
> > ** I meant setup.py, not config.py! **
> >
> > OK -- same sort of problem building readline.so :
> >  setup.py wants to include -ltermcap
> >
> > I was willing to write the other one off as a MacOSX oddity that
> > nobody on python-dev was likely to know about, but -ltermcap is
> > likely to be a problem on other systems too!
> >
> > So that makes me think I'm missing some obvious way of overriding
> > these switches. Are there any docs or tips on this new setup
> > method ?  Am I just supposed to edit the source of setup.py, or
> > is it generated from some template ?
>
> Please post these suggestions on the Python bugs listm, Python-Dev
> or Andrew Kuchling who wrote the setup.py script -- the
> distutils approach to auto-configuring Python's builtin modules
> is very new and still needs some refinements.
>
Andrew and Guido seem to have zero interest in supporting
platforms other than linux/unix.

Thomas