[Distutils] Re: pip and missing shared system system library

2020-08-10 Thread Wes Turner
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 3:28 PM Wes Turner wrote: > Are you requesting an implementation of autotools / autoconf / pkg-config > / libtool in Python, in setuptools? > > Existing workarounds for building and distributing portable binaries: > > W/ shared library dependencies: > - auditwheel &

[Distutils] Re: pip and missing shared system system library

2020-08-10 Thread Ronald Oussoren via Distutils-SIG
> On 10 Aug 2020, at 09:31, Jonathan DEKHTIAR > wrote: > > I hope it won't be obscure. But sometimes, you **need** to compile with the > same compiler even if you don't exploit specific compiler features. Namely > for "Bug Compatibility" reasons: >

[Distutils] Re: pip and missing shared system system library

2020-08-10 Thread Jonathan DEKHTIAR
I hope it won't be obscure. But sometimes, you **need** to compile with the same compiler even if you don't exploit specific compiler features. Namely for "Bug Compatibility" reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_compatibility When you work with low level libraries and tend to access

[Distutils] Re: pip and missing shared system system library

2020-08-10 Thread Ronald Oussoren via Distutils-SIG
> On 9 Aug 2020, at 18:59, David Mathog wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 8:15 PM Jonathan DEKHTIAR > wrote: >> >> So do you plan on "managing" which version of GCC or g++ people have and >> issue a warning if they don't have the good one? > > A setup.py will always be written for a