On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

>
>>> $ CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/foo/include" \
>>>   LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/foo/lib64" \
>>>   ./configure --with-foo=external
>>>
>>> This way the "libfoo.* should be happily picked up from
>>> /path/to/foo/lib64, too.
>>>
>
> Let me whack at  this approach some. Thanks.
>

This approach will mostly work.

However, I will need to fix libtool within python/Makefile.am somewhat,
there's an issue with libdir != -rpath path using libtool to install  
using
current conventions for WITH_PYTHON_LIBDIR search and value passed.

Which leads me to the discovery of
    AM_PATH_PYTHON
as used by rpm.org.

Any objections to attempting AM_PATH_PYTHON on HEAD? There are
most certainly fundamental design issues with python on
Mac OS X Tiger, so I'll leave python/Makefile.am rpm-5.1.x mostly as is.

73 de Jeff