[Patches] [ python-Patches-805678 ] Fix linking with shared libpython

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Patches item #805678, was opened at 2003-09-13 18:53
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Marc Recht (marc)
>Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: Fix linking with shared libpython

Initial Comment:
If Python is build with a shared lib python it installs

a libpython2.3.so.1.0 ( $(INSTSONAME) ).  If  Python is

not installed into a standard dir (eg. /usr), for

example $HOME/python this library is not found by the

linker. 

Meaning this fails: gcc -L$HOME/lib -o myprog -lpython2.3

This fails because there is no "libpython2.3.so". 

If Python is installed into standard dirs - on Linux -

this is handled by "ldconfig", but not for non-standard

dirs or other unixes where ldconfig doesn't create the

.so link.

The attached patch fixes this by creating the needed

symlink at install time. 

Tested Linux and NetBSD.



The patch is against release23-maint.



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