On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> >> I wonder if it would be better to have distutils generate the
> >> appropriate type of makefile and execute that instead...
>
> Martin> It was one of the design principles of distutils to not rely on
> Martin> any other tools but Python and the C compiler.
>
>Perhaps it's a design principle that needs to be rethought. If you can
>assume the presence of a C compiler I think you can generally assume the
>presence of a make tool of some sort.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's the rub. The MAKE.EXE mostly found on WinDOS boxen doesn't have
much more than the name in common with the well known Unix tool.
/Paul
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