[lxml-dev] setup.py and buildout

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

I reported previously that I created a buildout for lxml, but today I 
found out that is of limited utility: while it correctly links lxml 
against any libxml2 and libxslt library, it does still require the 
libxml and libxstl2 *headers* to be where xslt-config locates them, i.e. 
probably /usr/include

I tried to hack up the setup.py so it would look elsewhere (it is 
supposed to respond to things like --include-dirs), but setup.py has 
grown to be rather complicated. This is a common problem with 
configuring from Python code - it grows all kinds of things which look 
useful but also make it very hard to expect some kind of uniform 
behavior across different systems configuring themselves this way.

I hope that setup.py can still be adjusted so that buildout can be made 
to work. I *think* it's only not responding to --include-dirs that does 
it in.

Regards,

Martijn