[issue21571] Python build should check CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH for module dependencies

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[issue21571] Python build should check CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH for module dependencies

Jan Kanis added the comment: I can write a patch. I haven't signed a contributor agreement but I have no problem doing so. I am not sure when I will have time to write a patch though, so it could take some time. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21571] Python build should check CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH for module dependencies

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'm pretty sure that I wrote the code Ned refers to, and that's indeed only targeting darwin to avoid breaking other platforms. That code could easily be made actively globally though, the only reason I didn't do so at the time is we were still getting used t

[issue21571] Python build should check CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH for module dependencies

Ned Deily added the comment: setup.py already does that but only for builds on OS X (darwin); see http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/setup.py#l539. The comments there suggest to me that the code was made conditional to OS X to avoid introducing regressions in builds on other platforms.

[issue21571] Python build should check CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH for module dependencies

New submission from Jan Kanis: When building, pythons setup.py tries to find external sources for optional modules such as ssl, sqlite, etc. For that it searches the CFLAGS environment variable for -I options. C compilers such as gcc and clang also interpret CPATH and C_INCLUDE_PATH as extra s