[lxml-dev] Help getting lxml to work reliably on MacOS-X

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
> On 2008-02-09 14:33:43 +0100, Christian Zagrodnick <cz at gocept.com> said:
>> On 2008-02-08 20:43:18 +0100, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> said:
>>> Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>>>> The main problem is, that lxml runs the wrong xslt-config. So I was
>>>> basically building libxml2 and libxslt just for the fun of it.
>>>>
>>>> The question is if lxml really always needs to call xslt-config. Or how
>>>> one would set the path in the buildout so that the right xslt-config is
>>>> called.
>>>>
>>>> If I manually set the path it works like charm:
>>>>
>>>> % PATH=`pwd`/parts/libxslt/bin:$PATH bin/buildout
>>> You can now pass "--with-xslt-config=XXX" to setup.py.

... and --with-xml2-config=YYY, just in case you installed both in different
places.

>> Gotta check how we best pass that along in buildout.
> 
> So in the *next* version of zc.recipe.egg (i.e. >1.0.0), the following 
> will probably work. It works with the trunk of zc.recipe.egg (but this 
> is neither released nor has it been reviewed by Jim Fulton, yet):
> 
> [lxml-environment]
> PATH=${buildout:directory}/parts/libxslt/bin:%(PATH)s
[...]

... and, you can also set the XML2_CONFIG and XSLT_CONFIG environment
variables to make sure setup.py really picks up the right config.

Stefan