[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: configure.in syntax to find python binary during build...

[Steve Spicklemire]

Hi Py-Mac folks,

I tried this on the Python list, but no luck. In my eternal search for 
ways to avoid any *real* work, I thought I'd better at least try here, 
lest I have to actually figure out autoconf on my own! ;-)

thanks,
-steve

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steve Spicklemire <steve@spvi.com>
> Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001  09:32:55 AM America/Indianapolis
> To: python-list@python.org
> Cc: steve@spvi.com
> Subject: configure.in syntax to find python binary during build...
>
>
> Hi Python Folk,
>
> 	I'd like to modify configure.in for building Python on darwin. The 
> current configure.in uses "-undefined suppress" for generating shared 
> libs, and this get's a little tricky in later versions of darwin. I 
> snooped around on the darwin mailing list(s) and someone pointed me in 
> the direction of "-bundle_loader" which tells ld where to find symbols 
> that the library needs to have from the loading binary. Anyway.. since 
> I choose '.exe' as the --with-suffix then my python binary turns out to 
> be "python.exe" so this works for me in 'configure':
>
>         Darwin/*|next/*)
>                 if test "$ns_dyld"
>                 then LDSHARED='$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle -bundle_loader 
> python.exe'
>                 else LDSHARED='$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -nostdlib -r';
>                 fi
>
>  However.. someone else might choose a different suffix, and when 
> building shared modules in other directories I'm thinking that you may 
> need a full path to the python binary for this to work. Long story 
> short: How to you spell "Path to the installed binary of python" in 
> configure.in so that I can modify it for newer versions of darwin?
>
> thanks!
> -steve