Building things with setup.py

[James Stroud]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> James Stroud schrieb:
>> This is annoying. I am trying to build scipy right now but every .so
>> file requires my adding "-lpython2.5 -lpthread -lm -lutil -ldl -shared"
>> to the ld flags.
> 
> That shouldn't be necessary. Linking without this should work just fine.

Unfortunately, this was not my experience.

> That way, since you made libpython2.5.a a static library, you link an
> entire Python interpreter into each and every extension module. This
> should not be done.

Actually, a straight configure, make, install of the python2.5 source 
produced this library.

> What happens if you omit these flags?

Please see my last message to Robert Kern.

James