[lxml-dev] lxml Mac installation idea

[Ian Bicking]

Guntsche Michael wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2008, at 21:32, Mark Bestley wrote:
> 
>>> I do not really like the idea of static builds, since the static
>>> library has to be universal as well which means bigger files.
>>>
>> I don't understand this point as the dynamic libraries have to be
>> universal as well if python is universal.
> 
> What I ment was. If you build lxml yourself get universal builds of  
> libiconv, libxml2 and libxslt from macports or compile them yourself.
> I do not use the lxml port myself, I just use the libxml,xslt and  
> iconv libraries from there and build an egg. This works both with the  
> system python version and the one form python.org.

I cribbed the necessary options for libxml2 and libxslt from people's 
buildout.cfgs... what are the extra options for libiconv?  Mostly, how 
do I get the lxml build to see it, and do the libxml2 and/or libxslt 
builds have to see libiconv (some ./configure option)?


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