On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:11 -0700, Bryan Duxbury (JIRA) wrote: > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-386?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > ] > > Bryan Duxbury updated THRIFT-386: > --------------------------------- > > Fix Version/s: 0.2 > > > Make it possible to build the Python library without the extension > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Key: THRIFT-386 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-386 > > Project: Thrift > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Reporter: David Reiss > > Assignee: David Reiss > > Fix For: 0.2 > > > > > > It should be possible to build and install the Python library even if the > > headers required to compile the accelerator extension are not available. > > Ideallly, the configure script should detect this situation automatically.
AFAIK most of the time in Python land checking whether an extension can be built is not done in some configure script, but in setup.py itself, which makes more sense IMHO since building the fastbinary extension is a lib/py detail which shouldn't clutter configure.ac if possible. Nicolas
