[csw-maintainers] sun studio in standard path within /opt/csw, for the sake of python setuptools

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:12:37PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote:
> hi,
> 
> while trying to easy_install python apps, i fell over a problem with
> the path mike used for compiling python: /opt/studio/.. . this is a
> problem for filesystems like ours which uses a readonly /opt.

??

why is that a problem?


hm. it appears from the newsgroup reference, that you are specifically
complaining, that python has somehow hardcoded in its configs, 
CC=/full/path/to/cc
instead of a nice simple

CC=cc

that second one definately sounds better.
that being said...




> one has to set CC, LDSHARED, LDFLAGS, and for some like genshi
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH (/otp/csw) to make easy_install work. would it be
> possible to link/mount sunstudio within /opt/csw especially for python
> compiles?
> 
> see http://groups.google.com/group/distutils-sig/browse_thread/thread/d8d2c47eb1d96210
> for details.

where did LD_LIBRARY_PATH come in?