Cannot force configure/setup.py to pick up location of readline (SFWrline) on Solaris 10

[Chris Miles]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> You need to use GNU make for that to work. The build regenerates the
> makefile, but Sun make doesn't recognize the change. There was a message
> telling you so.

Thanks Martin, you are totally correct.  Using gmake avoids the problem.

> Also, your original complaint wasn't that readline isn't considered,
> but that setup.py didn't find it even though configure did. A patch
> fixing that has a higher chance of being accepted than a patch adding
> /opt/sfw to the standard search path (which is really a decision
> Sun should take, not the Python maintainers - in absence of a Sun
> change, it's then the local administrator who decides).

Fair point.  If time permits I'll look into constructing such a patch.

Cheers,
Chris

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