Python Un*x build with a Python shared library

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Frederic Giacometti wrote:
> Changes requested on the current Python 2.1 source distribution:
> ==========================================
> Changes should be required in only two location:
>     - main Python Makefile
>     - the distutil code that links the dynamic extensions.

   Nice to see someone returned to the issue. The following shell script
works for me perfectly (Linux, of course):

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#! /bin/sh

# For Linux systems, the simplest method of producing libpython.so seems to be
# (originally from the Minotaur project web page, http://mini.net/pub/ts2/minotaur.html)

make distclean
OPT="-fpic -O2" CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/ncurses mconfig $*
make || exit 1

mkdir .extract
(cd .extract; ar xv ../libpython2.1.a)
gcc -shared -o libpython2.1.so .extract/*.o
rm -rf .extract
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   But of course it'd be nice to allow Distutils recognize a platform and
do appropriate build.

Oleg.
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