Getting expat compiled properly

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"Mats Wichmann" <mats at laplaza.org> wrote in message
news:3b95f5d8.112439689 at news.laplaza.org...
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> :The problem is that I'm not an administrator at this machine, so
> :it would be a bit awkward... I guess I could take the #!/usr/bin/env
> :trick to new heights, but...
>
> You're limited to one argument...

I assume that's some strange restriction imposed by using env in the
hash-bang context? I see that it doesn't work -- although it works in
other contexts, e.g:

$ env foobar=1 python -c 'import os; print os.getenv("foobar")'
1

> This is a little tricky, yes.  You're trying to enable software where
> you can't control the entire execution context.

Right. Usually it's no problem, and I guess it wouldn't have been if
expat hadn't been compiled elsewhere.

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> You problem is the link editor (ld) is finding a dynamic libexpat, but
> the dynamic linker is not.

Right. I guess I should hide the dynamic lib from ld, right?

> Since you don't appear to be able to
> control the environment in which the dynamic linker runs, you have to
> have a discussion with the link editor :-) ... linking in the static
> libexapt should resolve the problem.

Yeah... Again, the way to do this will be to remove the location of
the dynamic one from LD_LIBRARY_PATH while compiling, right?

> As a hack:
>
> build Python, capturing the output. grab the link-edit line, put it in
> a script by itself, and modify where it says "-lexpat" replacing that
> one argument word with the path to the static expat library.

Hm. OK, I'll try.

> If that works you can work on tweaking the Python build.  Not knowing
> which compiler you're using

gcc

> I can't give you exact syntax, but there's
> a way to temporarily turn off the search for a dynamic library,

Ah. That sounds useful.

> so
> that your command line will (conceptually) look like this:
>
> ......  -StopLookingForDynamicLibs -lexpat -StartLookingForDynamicLibs
> .....

Right.

> e.g., just for expat, search only for a static copy, then go back to
> looking for dynamic in preferece to static.

OK. Thanks for the help.

>
> Mats Wichmann

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