[lxml-dev] lxml Mac installation idea

[Michael Guntsche]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:05:31 +0100, Guntsche Michael <mike at it-loops.com>
wrote:
> I spent far more time than I wanted on this one, but please check this..
> Maybe there is a better way to add the environment variables, but I  
> did not wnat to change call_subprocess that much.
> Index: buildlibxml.py
> +    # We just take the CFLAGS and LDFLAG from the python build  
> environment
> +    # so it does not matter if it was compiled Universal or not.
> +    os.environ['CFLAGS'] = sysconfig.get_config_var('CFLAGS')
> +    os.environ['LDFLAGS'] = sysconfig.get_config_var('LDFLAGS')
> +    os.environ['MACOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = "10.3"
> +
> +    # We are loosing the link to iconv add it again
> +    static_binaries.append('-liconv')
> +

Replying to my own E-Mail here. My SMTP server crapped out so this is a
little bit delayed.
Maybe we should set back the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS after compiling libxml2 and
libxslt. 
What happens is that the build of etree.so now has the flags twice. I is
not doing any harm right now, because they are the same anyway but it looks
"cleaner". Or we change call_subprocess so we can pass the env flags there.
Anyway, I will try to test this today on my PPC machine with 10.4 (Tiger)
still installed.
Maybe others with a different setup could test this as well. Doing it this
way links as against the system libraries just libxml2 and libxslt are
taken from the static build.

Kind regards,
Michael