On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 09:51 +0200, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > > > On 23 Oct 2021, at 17:48, Filipe Laíns <la...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2021-10-23 at 12:25 -0300, Joannah Nanjekye wrote: > > > I remembered this issue on bpo with contracting opinions from when I first > > > looked in 2019. > > > > > > See https://bugs.python.org/issue33439 > > > > Hi, > > > > This script is currently not written in Python and hardcodes paths that are > > incorrect on virtual environments and relocated installs, so it would make > > sense > > to rewrite it in Python, using sysconfig. > > > > That does not require it to be exposed as a module, but would be a very > > cheap > > improvement. > > > > As the bulk of the work would be to actually rewriting it in Python, and as > > there is reasoning to do this other than just exposing it as a module, I > > would > > be +1 FWIW. > > > Note that the original python implementation is still in the repository and is > used for framework builds on macOS because of the hardcoded values in the > shell script variant. On macOS the sysconfig values for compiler related > settings (CC, CFLAGS, …) are adjusted dynamically to account for different > compilers and system versions. > > IIRC the shell script variant was introduced to support some cross compilation > scenario’s (see https://bugs.python.org/issue16235). > > Ronald
Ah! I noticed the presence of a Python python-config in the repo shortly after sending this, but I was missing the this context here, so thank thank you :) So, I guess the existing python-config script just needs to be updated to handle cross compilation properly. Cheers, Filipe Laíns
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