Recently I was trying to compile/install cx_Oracle on our Solaris
system.
When I ran "python setup.py build" I got the following message:
"/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed"
I Googled around and discovered that this is a frequently-encountered
issue on Solaris systems, because Solaris systems don't have the
Solaris C compiler installed by default. (We certainly don't. We
use gcc instead.)
After poking around in the source code for distutils, I figured out
that I could get setup.py to work if -- *before* running setup.py -- I
set two environment variables:
export CC=gcc
export LDSHARED="gcc -G"
Afterward, in searching the Web, I couldn't find any documentation to
tell me that I had to do this, or why, or when.
So my question is:
Does anyone know the location of documentation (about distutils, or
about using setup.py) that tells you
- that you have to do this,
- why you have to do it,
- the circumstances under which you have to do it?
I'm a Unix newbie, so I may very well have missed something obvious.
Thanks in advance,
-- Steve Ferg
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