[issue14527] How to link with an external libffi?

2012-04-10 Thread Paul A.
Paul A. p...@freeshell.org added the comment: While this is no solution by any means, I think it'd be better for the scenario to be a fatal configure error. After all, if I say --with-system-ffi, it means I really, really want want to use my own libffi. --

[issue14527] How to link with an external libffi?

2012-04-09 Thread Paul A.
Paul A. p...@freeshell.org added the comment: Yes, I think my libffi setup is okay, but python apparently doesn't (according to the deeper-down log files I didn't initially know about). The following is a suspicious-looking snippet from build/temp.hp-ux-B.11.31-ia64-2.7/libffi/config.log...

[issue14527] How to link with an external libffi?

2012-04-08 Thread Paul A.
Paul A. p...@freeshell.org added the comment: On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 05:58:29AM +, Ross Lagerwall wrote: Ross Lagerwall rosslagerw...@gmail.com added the comment: If it is in a non-standard location, try setting the environment variables: LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -Llib dir if

[issue14527] How to link with an external libffi?

2012-04-07 Thread Paul A.
New submission from Paul A. p...@freeshell.org: I trying to build python using an external libffi package I have installed -- is there some trick in directing --with-system-ffi to the path where it's located. I don't see clues in config.log or anywhere to help. -- messages: 157776

[issue14527] How to link with an external libffi?

2012-04-07 Thread Ross Lagerwall
Ross Lagerwall rosslagerw...@gmail.com added the comment: If it is in a non-standard location, try setting the environment variables: LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -Llib dir if you have libraries in a nonstandard directory lib dir CPPFLAGS(Objective) C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g.