[GRASS-dev] swig/python setup.py removed?

[William Kyngesburye]

Martin, just wondering why swig/python was changed to use the makefile  
only instead of setup.py?  Now we're back to the same problem we had  
with the wx nviz & vdigit and OSX before I added the ifdef's in the  
makefiles (then the recent switch to setup.py) -- wrong linking flags  
are used.

ie:

Python modules on OSX don't link the Python library directly, but  
instead use "-bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup".

LD should not reuse the global GRASS SHARED_LD because it has the OSX  
*library* linking flags, which include -dynamiclib which conflicts  
with the needed -bundle flag.

I can patch Python.make to set PYMOD_LDFLAGS conditionally for darwin,  
like what I did in nviz/vdigit, and set PYMOD_LD to "$(CXX) -shared".   
But I'm not sure that PYMOD_LD is appropriate for all platforms (OK on  
Linux, -shared is ignored on OSX).

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