[lxml-dev] setup.py and buildout

[Ian Bicking]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 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.

Luke Tucker has been trying to resolve these same issues in the 
Deliverance buildout.  I don't know the status -- hopefully he'll chime 
in -- but the work is in 
http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/deliverance/buildout/trunk

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