Distutils is learning slowly, but this is about the setup.py that's used
to build CPython's own extension modules (everything in
lib/python3.8/lib-dynload).
Questions about building third-party packages go to distutils-sig, not
python-dev :)
Cheers,
Steve
On 19Mar2020 2034, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote:
Last time I checked, distutils didn't support compilation for anything
but the running Python instance, nor was it intended to. Should it?
If not, the efforts look misplaced, you should rather use a toolchain
that does...
On 19.03.2020 23:22, Steve Dower wrote:
So over on https://bugs.python.org/issue22699 I've been talking to
myself as I figure out all the ways that cross-compiling (on Ubuntu,
targeting another Linux distro via an SDK) fails.
In short, it's either because sysconfig can't provide details about
any CPython install other than the currently running one, or it's
because our setup.py (for building the CPython extension modules) uses
sysconfig.
Either way, I'm not about to propose a rewrite to fix either of them
without finding those who are most involved in these areas. Please
come join me on the bug.
Thanks,
Steve
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