[lxml-dev] lxml setup.py exslt link flag

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Luke,

Luke Tucker wrote:
> I came across a slight issue with the part of lxml's setup.py
> that adds a link flag for exslt when libxslt is installed 
> in a directory with a name containing the string 'xslt'. 
> 
> If I understand correctly, to generate the link flag for 
> libexslt, the result of 'xslt-config --libs' 
> is taken and searched for an element containing 'xslt' and 
> a new element is inserted which has 'exslt' instead. 
> 
> In my case, I was working with an install of libxslt in: 
> 
> /home/ltucker/devel/deliverance.buildout/parts/libxslt
> 
> and 'xslt-config --libs' returns: 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -L/home/ltucker/devel/deliverance.buildout/parts/libxslt/lib
> -L/home/ltucker/devel/deliverance.buildout/parts/libxml2/lib -lxslt
> -lxml2 -lz -lm
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

I committed a little patch to the trunk that should make setup.py a little (!)
more robust against this kind of problem. Please check if it works for you.

Stefan