[lxml-dev] How to specify library files location when building lxml?

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Hi,

 

I've been struggling to get lxml built on Solaris 2.9 *without* root. 

 

The problem seems to be that when I go to build lxml with easy_install it is
looking in /usr/lib (where very old versions exist) but I want it to use the
libxml and libxslt that are in /usr/local/lib. Is there a way to specify
that? I've checked all the options and distutils.cfg but can't figure out
how.

 

So far I have:

-          built Python 2.5.1 from source

-          setup virtual-env

-          run easy_install with --prefix successfully to install modules

 

The output I see is:

 

bash-2.05$ easy_install --prefix=~/alt lxml

Searching for lxml

Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/lxml/

Reading http://codespeak.net/lxml

Best match: lxml 2.1

Downloading http://codespeak.net/lxml/lxml-2.1.tgz

Processing lxml-2.1.tgz

Running lxml-2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
/tmp/easy_install-1-bIHk/lxml-2.1/egg-dist-tmp-Elegr4

Building lxml version 2.1.

NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated 'src/lxml/lxml.etree.c'
needs to be available.

Using build configuration of libxslt 1.0.19

Building against libxml2/libxslt in the following directory: /usr/lib

src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:108:28: libxml/chvalid.h: No such file or directory

.etc

 

 

Many thanks, 

Daniel

 

Daniel Seltzer

dseltzer at h2co3.com

646-322-5657

 

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