Why no libpython2.x.so in redhat?

[Martin v. Loewis]

spam at fisher.forestry.uga.edu (Chris Fonnesbeck) writes:

> I'm looking for someone out there who develops on RedHat who can help
> me out: Why are there no libpython .so files on the redhat builds? It
> is creating problems for me when trying to run python embedded in C. 
> It seems that my program looks for the .so files, and not finding
> them, dies. 

That is a bug in your program. It should not be looking for such a
file, since Python does not provide one.

Can you elaborate *why* your program is looking for such a file?

Regards,
Martin