[issue640553] Misuse of /usr/local/in setup.py

2011-02-15 Thread Sébastien Sablé
Sébastien Sablé added the comment: I can only bypass this by explicitly specifying -L/usr/lib so that it will take precedence over -L/usr/local/lib. But this behavior is still broken... "Explicit is better than implicit." I can see no reason why /usr/local should be implicitly added; people th

[issue640553] Misuse of /usr/local/in setup.py

2011-02-15 Thread Sébastien Sablé
Sébastien Sablé added the comment: This bug is still present in Python 2.7.1. I have also just been beaten by it on solaris. I have libintl.so.1 in /usr/lib and libintl.so.8 in /usr/local/lib. I have never specified that I wanted to use /usr/local/lib anywhere, but the compilation scripts in