[Gdal-dev] Python Module Build

[Sean Fulton]

On Apr 15, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Alessandro Amici wrote:

>
> Sean,
>
> On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:02, Alessandro Amici wrote:
>> ok, finally i understand what is going on on MacOS X. i'll try to fix 
>> the
>> configure/make system ASAP. it is not strightforward, but it can be 
>> done
>> ;).
>
> mmm, looks like things are harder than i thought along this route :(. i
> couldn't beat the python build into submission, yet.
>
> however, this is what i wrote in january when the macosx link problem 
> was
> reported for the first time:
>
>> the build of the gdal python module has always been fragile, and it 
>> has
>> became a real hack since the libtool transition (my fault, 
>> admittedly).
>> IMHO the  only hope to get out of the current mess is to use the 
>> distutils
>> infrastructure, that hopefully will take care of the OSX problem as 
>> well.
>>
>> so i refreshed what looked like an abandoned setup.py in the top 
>> directory.
>> current gdal cvs builds and installs fine on linux with:
>> $ ./configure <...> --without-python
>> $ make
>> $ python setup.py build
>> $ python setup.py install
>
> it still works on linux. could you test if it works on MacOS X as well?
>

I'll try to give it a shot this weekend. Thanks for your attention to 
this. The closer I get it to working the more frustrating it becomes! 
And I don't even use Python. :)

By the way, are there any test scripts for GDAL to make sure everything 
is indeed working properly?

> thanks,
> alessandro
>
>

Thank you, Alessandro,

	Sean