Am 07.11.2012 13:52, schrieb Ray Donnelly:
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> Ray Donnelly added the comment:
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>> is there a need for the built vs. installed prefix?
>>     this is logic not found in the python implementation.
>>     what is this supposed to do?
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> You are right, it is not found in the original python implementation, but I feel that it's useful. Without it, you couldn't give someone a -devel style precompiled Python archive that they can extract where-ever they want and embed in other software without requiring them to install it to the same prefix used during the build process.

hmm, but python.pc, _sysconfigdata.py and Makefile still have this information. 
How would you test the output and compare it with the python implementation?

>> is `local' available in all shells? just avoid it.
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> I can't be sure about all shells, but local is *very* well supported (bash, dash, csh); I'm happy to remove it though as it's not necessary.
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>> LDLIBRARY and LDSHARED are expressed in terms of Makefile
>>    macros, leading to syntax errors.
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> This shouldn't be the case, see:
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> # Replace makefile compat. variable references with shell script compat. ones; $(VAR) -> ${VAR}
> +	sed -e "s,\$$(\([A-Za-z0-9_]*\)),\$$\{\1\},g" < Misc/python-config.sh >python-config.sh

ahh, ok, only looked at the file in the build location.

>> - --includes doesn't include the plat specific include dir
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> You are right, I will correct this oversight.

maybe should only be included, if it's different.