[Pythonmac-SIG] customize distutils universal extension build?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 18-mei-2006, at 5:29, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> Is there some way to customize or override the build flags for
> building a Python extension (a C library wrapper)?
>
> My main problem is that it adds the -g debug flag, ballooning the
> size of the module.  I want to build WITHOUT the -g flag.

It is possible to add additonal flags, but that won't help you  
because you want to remove an existing flag and that is not possible.  
GCC also doesn't have a flag that negates the -g flag.

If you want to remove the debugging information you can use the strip  
command to remove this from the compiled extension.

But, why do care about the size of the compiled extension?  Disk  
space is cheap these days ;-). Furthermore, if you redistribute the  
extension as part of an applicationt that is build using py2app the  
extension will be stripped when it is stuffed inside the application  
bundle.

Ronald