Hi,
I see that you can add specify some custom build settings for packages
with C-extensions:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.egg#creating-eggs-with-extensions-needing-custom-build-settings
The options you can pass are limited though. In my case for the
InformixDB package I want to pass '--esql-threadlib = posix' to the
build process. Currently this is not possible.
Is there a reason why only the current hardcoded options (like
include-dirs) are available for customizing? It looks like it should be
possible to change the zc.recipe.egg code to look for other options and
pass them to the build_ext call. The only thing that might be tricky is
to make a difference between options in the buildout part that should be
passed to build_ext and options that have a totally different meaning
and should be ignored by build_ext.
Would this be a good addition to zc.recipe egg? I could create a branch
and try it. That should be a branch of zc.buildout, right?
Or are there other ways that currently already work?
My workaround for now will likely be to make a copy of the original
source dist tarball of InformixDB and add a setup.cfg in there with this
contents:
[build_ext]
--esql-threadlib = posix
From a local test this seems to be working.
BTW, I did not know that you could specify these options in setup.cfg; I
found that out today by looking through the zc.buildout code. :-)
Cheers,
--
Maurits van Rees
Web App Programmer at Zest Software: http://zestsoftware.nl
Personal website: http://maurits.vanrees.org/
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