Re: python bindings for syck

Kirill Simonov wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Tuesday 30 August 2005 21:07, John Pywtorak wrote:
> 
>>Looks good, thanks.  You might consider a change to setup.py that checks
>>for syck.h, or libsyck.  I thought I had it installed and ran python
>>setup.py build and sure enough syck.h was missing.  This would save the
>>user having to read through the errors produced by gcc.
> 
> 
> Ok, I'll do it if I figure out how to do it. distutils does not have 
> something 
> like AC_CHECK_HEADERS, does it? 
> 

Maybe why would consider adding a pkg-config .pc file to his source
distribution of syck.  Some libraries are starting to support pkg-config
which makes checking the install of a lib easy.

pkg-config --exists libwhatever

The pc file is fairly small text file and I think auto genterated,
maybe.  I am rather new to it, so that is as much as I know.
libstatgrab and pylibstatgrab use this method.

The other way I have seen setup.py do it is by using file system checks.
 Is the file header.h in /usr/include, or /usr/local/include etc.

Johnny P



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