Building things with setup.py

["Martin v. Löwis"]

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.

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.

What happens if you omit these flags?

Regards,
Martin