SWIGing problem

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Robert Kern wrote:
> Tommy Grav wrote:
> 
>>This might not be the venue to ask this but I do not know where else to
>>turn. 
>>I am trying to install a package that is swig'ed from some C code. 
>>Unfortunately the readme file isn't to informative.  Does anyone
>>know which libraries to link to to remove the undefined symbols
>>below?
>>
>>[tgrav at skathi] Python/pynovas -> ld -dynamic novas_wrap.o libnovas.a -lm
>>-lpython -o _novas.so
>>ld: Undefined symbols:
>>_fprintf$LDBLStub
>>_printf$LDBLStub
>>dyld_stub_binding_helper
>>restFP
>>saveFP
> 
> 
> Ouch! Are they really not using distutils to build the extension modules? Even
> when you fix the specific issue above (if you're on OS X, add -lcc_dynamic to
> the link line; otherwise, I don't know), you're still probably going to have
> other problems. distutils knows how to build Python extensions modules. The
> pynovas Makefile doesn't.
> 

I did not use distutils, because I do not know how :-)! Maybe in the 
next release of PyNOVAS.

Jaap