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

[Luke Tucker]

Thanks, 

that does the trick for me. 

- Luke 

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 08:51 +0100, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 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
> 
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