I am trying to utilize the config module in distutils to test for
certain headers and libraries and fail elegantly if they are not found
with a helpful message. The typical gcc error message when a header
is missing is inscrutable to many.
I have subclassed config and can use my class with
> python setup.py config
The config class finds all the module specific path and library
information, but I am not clear on the best way to get this to the
build process. One option is to save the information to a config
file, eg using a plain text format, creating a python module, or using
pickle, but it seems artificial to me to have to use an intermediate
file. Is there a way to get the config information on a call to
> python setup.py build
My config class looks like
from distutils.command.config import config
class config_mpl(config):
def run (self):
# make sure you can find the headers, link with the libraries,
# etc, and collect per module include_dirs, library_dirs,
# libraries information
One idea is to dump the information from the config call to a
config.pickle, but ideally I would like the config file to be human
readable....
Thanks,
JDH
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