Re: [patch] use python-config if available

Doug Evans
2012-12-22T19:33:15Z

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> The patch is fine with me.
>> [The plan wasn't to shift and call the "real" python-config ... at the
>> time there was no real python-config for cross builds.]
>>
>> One typo: should be ${python_config}
>>
>> - AC_ERROR(failure running python-config --exec-prefix)
>> + AC_ERROR(failure running ${python-config} --exec-prefix)
>
> Can we make this new behavior optional? The "real" python-config
> is broken for several platforms, and having our own that we can
> control was very convenient.

I certainly don't want to break your use-case.

I need to look at the patch again (but I probably won't get to it
until next week).