On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I need some help on http://bugs.python.org/issue5941 > > The bug is quite simple: the Distutils unixcompiler used to set the > archiver command to "ar -rc". > > For quite a while now, this behavior has changed in order to be able > to customize the compiler behavior from > the environment. That introduced a regression because the mechanism in > Distutils that looks for the > AR variable in the environment also looks into the Makefile of Python. > (in the Makefile then is os.environ) > > And as a matter of fact, AR is set to "ar" in there, so the -cr option > is not set anymore. > > So my question is : should I make a change into the Makefile by adding > for example a variable called AR_OPTIONS > then build the ar command with AR + AR_OPTIONS
I think for consistency, it could be named ARFLAGS (this is the name usually taken for configure scripts), and both should be overridable as the other variable in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler. Those flags should be used in Makefile.pre as well, instead of the harcoded cr as currently used. Here is what I would try: - check for AR (already done in the configure script AFAICT) - if ARFLAGS is defined in the environment, use those, otherwise set ARFLAGS to cr - use ARFLAGS in the makefile Then, in the customize_compiler function, set archiver to $AR + $ARFLAGS. IOW, just copying the logic used for e.g. ldshared, I can prepare a patch if you want, cheers, David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
