Building things with setup.py

James Stroud jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Fri Sep 22 16:19:49 EDT 2006


Robert Kern wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
> 
>> Well I added those arguments to $LDFLAGS, but it seemed like a pretty 
>> miserable hack, especially the "-shared" part.
> 
> 
> Hmmm. Did you have $LDFLAGS set to anything (or more likely, nothing) 
> before? I.e. did you have something like this?
> 
>   export LDFLAGS=""
>   python setup.py build
> 
> If such environment variables are present, I think that numpy.distutils 
> may clobber the values that are inferred from the configuration.
> 

Didn't see this message last night.

No, my $LDFLAGS were set. I haven't tried unsetenv'ing them (I use tcsh 
as a consequence of my anti-bash religious upbringing).

James

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