Make sure setup.py reads the correct CONFIG_ARGS The setup.py script that builds and installs all the Python modules shipped with the interpreter looks at the CONFIG_ARGS variable stored in the "sysconfig" module to look at the ./configure options and adjust its behaviour accordingly. Unfortunately, when cross-compiling, the value of CONFIG_ARGS returned by the sysconfig are the one passed to the ./configure script of the *host* Python and not the one we're currently building for the target. In order to avoid that, we re-initialize the values in the sysconfig module by re-reading the environment at the beginning of the setup.py script, and we make sure that the CONFIG_ARGS variable is actually part of the environment of setup.py. See the beginning of http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/99772 for the inspiration. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- Makefile.pre.in | 6 +++--- setup.py | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: Python-2.7.2/Makefile.pre.in =================================================================== --- Python-2.7.2.orig/Makefile.pre.in +++ Python-2.7.2/Makefile.pre.in @@ -411,8 +411,8 @@ # Build the shared modules sharedmods: $(BUILDPYTHON) @case $$MAKEFLAGS in \ - *s*) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' CROSS_COMPILING=@CROSS_COMPILING@ DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="$(DISABLED_EXTENSIONS)" $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py -q build;; \ - *) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' CROSS_COMPILING=@CROSS_COMPILING@ DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="$(DISABLED_EXTENSIONS)" $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py build;; \ + *s*) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' CROSS_COMPILING=@CROSS_COMPILING@ DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="$(DISABLED_EXTENSIONS)" CONFIG_ARGS="$(CONFIG_ARGS)" $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py -q build;; \ + *) $(RUNSHARED) CC='$(CC)' LDSHARED='$(BLDSHARED)' OPT='$(OPT)' CROSS_COMPILING=@CROSS_COMPILING@ DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="$(DISABLED_EXTENSIONS)" CONFIG_ARGS="$(CONFIG_ARGS)" $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py build;; \ esac # Build static library @@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ # Install the dynamically loadable modules # This goes into $(exec_prefix) sharedinstall: sharedmods - $(RUNSHARED) CROSS_COMPILING=@CROSS_COMPILING@ DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="$(DISABLED_EXTENSIONS)" $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py install \ + $(RUNSHARED) CROSS_COMPILING=@CROSS_COMPILING@ DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="$(DISABLED_EXTENSIONS)" CONFIG_ARGS="$(CONFIG_ARGS)" $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -E $(srcdir)/setup.py install \ --prefix=$(prefix) \ --install-scripts=$(BINDIR) \ --install-platlib=$(DESTSHARED) \ Index: Python-2.7.2/setup.py =================================================================== --- Python-2.7.2.orig/setup.py +++ Python-2.7.2/setup.py @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ # Were we compiled --with-pydebug or with #define Py_DEBUG? COMPILED_WITH_PYDEBUG = hasattr(sys, 'gettotalrefcount') +sysconfig.get_config_vars() +sysconfig._CONFIG_VARS.update(os.environ) + # This global variable is used to hold the list of modules to be disabled. try: disabled_module_list = sysconfig.get_config_var("DISABLED_EXTENSIONS").split(" ")