Description
Currently the setup.py
strategy is to look for pcap.h
in a fixed set of locations. Please support either LDFLAGS
/ CFLAGS
(or CPPFLAGS
) to specify additional locations, and / or use pkg-config
to locate the prefix.
For example, running pkg-config --libs-only-L --cflags libpcap
on conforming systems gives you the correct -I
and -L
flags (to then be parsed further) or use pkg-config --variable=includedir libpcap
and pkg-config --variable=libdir libpcap
to get the include and library paths as two separate strings on stdout.
For LDFLAGS
and CFLAGS
no further parsing would be required, as setuptools.Extension()
supports those natively, provided you don't override those. Perhaps only do the current manual search if a pkg-config
search fails and no LDFLAGS
/ CFLAGS
/ CPPFLAGS
environment variables are set?
This then allows for isolated builds that use a specific, bundled version of libpcap
.