<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 February 2016 at 18:40, Andre McCurdy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:armccurdy@gmail.com" target="_blank">armccurdy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2bv" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">setup.py actually parses the output of curl-config --libs (ie "-lcurl<br>
-lnettle -lgnutls -lz") to decide which ssl implementation curl has<br>
been built against. There's nothing in curl's pkg-config file which<br>
gives that same information.<br>
<br>
A second question is why pycurl thinks it needs to know which ssl<br>
implementation curl is using. I don't think it really does, but fixing<br>
it and then rewriting setup.py is not a trivial patch.</div></blockquote></div><br>Huh, it looks a lot like the pkgconfig file isn't complete. Also my initial look at "can I rewrite this setup.py to use pkgconfig" was quickly abandoned with your same conclusion... agreed: this patch is on hold!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>