[lxml-dev] changes to lxml's setup.py

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

To followup, I've done some more refactoring and hope I didn't break 
anything. I've now made it more explicit that we're setting library dirs 
and install dirs, instead of just passing everything as cflags and libs.

I've also done a lot of thinking about the rpath issue. One first step 
is of course to make --rpath reach distutils again, and I've fixed that 
by making the current --rpath option be named --auto-rpath.

Now I'm trying to figure out why buildout still doesn't work correctly, 
and I think I've identified the issue as at least partially in buildout. 
  Passing --include-dirs and --library-dirs to setup.py explicitly 
certainly has the intented effect after all.. I've sent a message to the 
buildout people (mainly Jim Fulton) to see whether he has anything to 
say about this.

I think setupinfo.py can be refactored somewhere further beyond this; 
I'm still not 100% happy with the way static options now override, and I 
still need to explore what happens when you override with commandline 
options. It would still be nice to indicate a custom xslt-config as 
well, but that would require a bit more magic in option parsing than I 
feel up to right now.

Regards,

Martijn