built with --enable-shared but get error: libpython2.3.so.1.0: can't open shared object file

[Michael Hudson]

turner at mmedia.is (Douglass Turner) writes:

> Please release me from my own private hell.

OK, just install the non-shared library build.

> Platform: SuSE 8.1
> 
> I'm installing python 2.3 tarball as follows:
> 
> ./configure --enable-shared
> make
> make install
> 
> When I simply type:
> 
> % python
> 
> I get:
> 
> python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.3.so.1.0:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> This is really, really, frustrating. The file does in fact live in
> /usr/local/lib.

Is that in /etc/ld.so.conf?  Maybe you should set LD_LIBRARY_RUN_PATH
(or whatever it's called).

> Interestingly this is outside PYTHONHOME. How do I fix this silly
> problem (which the python install process should *never* let happen
> in the first place).

Unclear what Python can do.  If you want to install a shared library
somewhere that the system doesn't look for it by default, you have to
do something to get it to look there.  I guess there's probably some
way of putting an absolute path in the executable, but that leads to
its own form of entertainment (like, I would imagine, not being able
to run the interpreter until you install it).

Cheers,
mwh

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