Tackling setup.py - A bug??

[rh0dium]

Hi Folks,

I use p4python for all of my perforce and python related needs.  I'm
on a Mac (OSX 10.4).  p4python relies on a perforce provided API which
gets compiled when I run the setup.py.  The setup.py by default does
not support macs so I figured what better way to spend a night than to
figure out how to add in the neccesary hooks for mac support...

So the problem I am seeing is when I do an import of the module I get
the following error:
>>> import p4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/p4.py", line 17, in
<module>
    import P4Client
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
P4Client.so, 2): Symbol not found: _CFStringCompare
  Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/P4Client.so
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

First I figured out how to compile the thing at the command line so it
worked.  ( No the default did not - I tried various derivations on it
to no avail.  However at long last I was able to manually compile and
link this so it did work.  To get it to compile I used the following
two lines (compile / link)

    > g++ -c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/P4Clientmodule.o -
DCASE_INSENSITIVE \
       -fpascal-strings -isysroot/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch
ppc -DCASE_INSENSITIVE \
       -O2 -DOS_MACOSX -DOS_MACOSX104 -DOS_MACOSXPPC -DOS_MACOSX104PPC
\
        -Ip4api6.1 -I/usr/local/include/python2.5 P4Clientmodule.cc
        # Followed by linking using:

     > g++ -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -Wl,-syslibroot,/
Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk \
        -arch ppc \
        -o build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/P4Client.so build/
temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/P4Clientmodule.o\
        -Lp4api6.1 p4api6.1/libclient.a p4api6.1/librpc.a p4api6.1/
libsupp.a -framework Carbon

And this followed by an setup.py install seemed to work just fine.  Ok
so now I need to backport these options into setup.py.  Here is what I
came up with..

    elif os.name == "posix":
        setup(name=NAME,
             version=VERSION,
             description=DESCRIPTION,
             author=AUTHOR,
             author_email=AUTHOR_EMAIL,
             maintainer=MAINTAINER,
             maintainer_email=MAINTAINER_EMAIL,
             license=LICENSE,
             url=URL,
             keywords=KEYWORDS,
             classifiers = filter(None, classifiers.split("\n")),
             long_description = "\n".join(doclines[2:]),
             py_modules=PY_MODULES,
             ext_modules=[Extension("P4Client", ["P4Clientmodule.cc"],
                            include_dirs=[p4_api_dir],
                            library_dirs=[p4_api_dir],
                            libraries=["client", "rpc", "supp"],    #
P4API libs
                            extra_compile_args=["-DCASE_INSENSITIVE",
"-fpascal-strings",
                                                "-isysroot/Developer/
SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk",
                                                "-DOS_MACOSX", "-
DOS_MACOSX104",
                                                "-DOS_MACOSXPPC", "-
DOS_MACOSX104PPC" ,"-D%s" % p4_api_ver],
                            extra_link_args=[ "-Wl,-syslibroot,/
Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk", "-arch ppc", "-framework Carbon" ],
                            )])

But low and behold it didn't work...  In the course of debugging I
found that the compile works.  The linking appears to be a problem.
In the link stage I see the command which is being run looks very
similar to my command

g++ -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/
P4Clientmodule.o \
-Lp4api6.1 -lclient -lrpc -lsupp -o build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/
P4Client.so \
 -Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch ppc -framework
Carbon

Not quite the same but close enough.  HERE is where the bug shows
up........
If I rerun this same EXACT command at the command line - followed by a
setup.py install it works.

Can someone with a larger python brain than mine please help me figure
this out?  It's bugging the crap out fo me...

ARGGGGHHHHH!!!