Bug 84413

Summary: pycairo configuration fails: tries to use build environment for python instead of the current environment
Product: pycairo Reporter: Abulhair Saparov <abulhair.saparov>
Component: generalAssignee: Steve Chaplin <d74n5pohf9>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Abulhair Saparov 2014-09-28 06:47:51 UTC 
Both setup.py and waf configuration methods fail when I try to build pycairo on my Gentoo system. The configuration attempts to use distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var to query the build environment, but I do not think this is correct, since it will return the environment used to build python. The result is a weird combination of the old and new build environments.

More specifically, in my case, I used the Intel compiler (icc) to build python with the flag -fno-stack-protector-all. However, waf obtains this CFLAG and attempts to run gcc with the flag. This fails since the equivalent flag in gcc is -fno-stack-protector.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile python using an initial build environment (CC, CFLAGS, etc). In my case, I have python 2.7 and 3.3 compiled using icc (similar to http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_ICC_and_Portage).
2. Modify the build environment, for example by changing CC or adding options to CFLAGS.
3. Configure pycairo.
Comment 1 Christoph Reiter 2017-07-05 15:10:29 UTC 
Since 1.11 pycairo uses distutils for building. There is a good chance that
this bug no longer occurs with the new system. If there are still problems
please file a bug: https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/issues

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