ah ... found it. but i do not make any progress with debugging. somehow it seems to use the correct compiler while compiling but not when linking.
/cs/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DNDEBUG -O -xO3 -xarch=v8 -DHAVE_LIBJPEG - DHAVE_LIBZ -DWORDS_BIGENDIAN -I/opt/csw/include/freetype2 -IlibImaging -I/opt/csw/include -I/usr/include -I/opt/csw/include/python2.6 -c libImaging/ZipEncode.c -o build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4v-2.6/libImaging/ ZipEncode.o /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc -G build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4v-2.6/ _imaging.o build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4v-2.6/decode.o <cut> ... -L/usr/lib -ljpeg -lz -lpython2.6 -o build/lib.solaris-2.10-sun4v-2.6/ _imaging.so rupert. On May 22, 4:13 pm, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:07 PM, rupert.thurner > > <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 22, 3:41 pm, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, rupert.thurner > > >> <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > are you sure you are not violating something here? > > >> What do you mean ? > > the "This function is even more special-purpose, and should only be > > used > > from Python’s own build procedures. " > > As a matter of fact, Python uses build_ext when it's built. What the > documentation means > here is that you should not use customize_compiler in your code, but > through build_ext > and a few other commands in Python's distutils. > > I agree it's not very clear though, and that it should be made private > with a "_" > > > > >> > the packager of our operating systems python had the compiler in /opt/ > >> > studio/... but we do not. > > >> build_ext will pick the CC it finds in the Makefile but overrides it if one > >> is set in os.environ['CC'] > > > i cannot find it in the code ... but it seems to work on the top level > > but is not passed on, so i wonder where in the code this is ? > > It's in distutils code, not setuptools. Setuptools is a layer on the > top of distutils. > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - > distutils-...@python.orghttp://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig