Re: [boost] [python] patch for python.jam for setting suffix onHP-UX

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-18 14:26:21

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Boris Gubenko wrote:
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>> Yeah; isn't there a function in os.jam that lets you get that value?
>> I'm not sure what function you mean. I can use 'os.platform' instead of
>> 'modules.peek : OSPLAT' (I wish I used it in the first place).
>>
>> Is 'os.platform' the recommended way to determine the platform or there
>> is a better way?
> 
> As your goal is to figure out the suffix (extension), you can ask python
> for that directly, since python clearly needs to know what filenames to
> look for when importing modules.
> 
> LIBEXT=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print
> sysconfig.get_config_var('SO')" | tr -d "\r"`
> 
> ...is what I do in my configure.ac script.

It has drawback that it doesn't work if one wants to do cross-compiles. 
Which is why we avoid system runtime tests, one exception being asking 
the compiler what version it is.

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