Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Braun
You are right, they don't seem to do autotools-style library detection. Thats messed up ;-) On Monday, April 23, 2012 4:50:18 PM UTC-4, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2012-04-23 20:06, Volker Braun wrote: > > It is yet another thing that could be solved once-and-for-all with the > > compilerwra

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-04-23 20:06, Volker Braun wrote: > It is yet another thing that could be solved once-and-for-all with the > compilerwrapper ;-) Here, this is not the case. The problem is not with gcc here, the problem is with Python "detecting" which libraries are installed. No compilerwrapper can solve

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, April 23, 2012 7:59:11 AM UTC-4, Snark wrote: > > No, only python packages which insist on overriding lib paths, because > that means even a patched compiler/interpreter which knows where to > look, will still fail because of the override > Yes thats awful. It is yet another thing that

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 23 avril, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit: > On 2012-04-23 14:33, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > I hate Python's installer and distutils/setuptools. > ... but I hate it less than I hate SCons, which is broken by design, > for example by ignoring environment variables on purpose! Uh, like : http://trac.

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-04-23 14:33, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > I hate Python's installer and distutils/setuptools. ... but I hate it less than I hate SCons, which is broken by design, for example by ignoring environment variables on purpose! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
I hate Python's installer and distutils/setuptools. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL:

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 23 avril, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit: > We really have to patch every single Python package? That's awful. No, only python packages which insist on overriding lib paths, because that means even a patched compiler/interpreter which knows where to look, will still fail because of the override.

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
We really have to patch every single Python package? That's awful. If only distutils/setuptools wouldn't be so broken... why do they hard-code the directories to look for .so files? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an em

Re: [sage-devel] Python and Debian multi-arch

2012-04-23 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 23 avril, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit: > I don't know whether this has ben mentioned already on this list, but > also Python has problems with Debian multi-arch. Python doesn't know > that it has to look in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu for libraries, so > building the crypt module fails and buildin