[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Use pkg-config for Python

[Olaf Hering]

On Mon, Jun 17, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:08:46AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 02:55:29PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > > For me current 1.20 branch fails to build python in SLE11.
> > > 
> > > Does SuSE's python have a pkg-config file?
> > 
> > SLE11 does not have it, but openSUSE 11.4+ has it.
> > I think the previous code should be restored as a fallback when the .pc
> > files are missing.
> 
> TBH it adds a lot of complexity to an already complex and fragile
> configure script, which would hardly ever be tested.
> 
> Can't either SLE11 be fixed, or else the revert patch carried by SLE11
> (the latter is what we are doing for RHEL 5)?

I have added this to the spec file to fix my build failure:

+if ! pkg-config python
+then
+       export PYTHON_LIBS="-lpython`python -c 'import distutils.sysconfig; print (distutils.sysconfig.get_python_version ());'`"
+       export PYTHON_CFLAGS="-I`python -c 'import distutils.sysconfig; print (distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc ());'`"
+fi


Olaf