[Distutils] compiling an extension on solaris: genshi, mercurial, ...

[rupert.thurner]

hi,

we run http://www.blastwave.org and try to install http://genshi.edgewall.org
which bails out with (btw, the same happens with mercurial version
control):

# ls -l /opt/csw/lib/libpython2.5.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          19 Jul 18 23:14 /opt/csw/lib/
libpython2.5.so -> libpython2.5.so.1.0

# easy_install --prefix /opt/csw/testing genshi
Searching for genshi
Best match: Genshi 0.6dev-r914
Processing Genshi-0.6dev_r914-py2.5-solaris-2.10-sun4v.egg
Genshi 0.6dev-r914 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Using /opt/csw/testing/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Genshi-0.6dev_r914-
py2.5-solaris-2.10-sun4v.egg
Processing dependencies for genshi
Finished processing dependencies for genshi
root at chvp011vs035 /
# rm /opt/csw/testing/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Genshi-0.6dev_r914-
py2.5-solaris-2.10-sun4v.egg
root at chvp011vs035 /
# easy_install --prefix /opt/csw/testing genshi
Searching for genshi
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/genshi/
Couldn't find index page for 'genshi' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Genshi/
Reading http://genshi.edgewall.org/
Reading http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Download
Best match: Genshi 0.5.1
Downloading http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/genshi/Genshi-0.5.1.zip
Processing Genshi-0.5.1.zip
Running Genshi-0.5.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/
easy_install-kz7muh/Genshi-0.5.1/egg-dist-tmp--y0Vju
warning: no previously-included files found matching 'doc/
2000ft.graffle'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under
directory 'doc/logo.lineform'
ld: fatal: library -lpython2.5: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to build/
lib.solaris-2.10-sun4v-2.5/genshi/_speedups.so
**********************************************************************
WARNING:
An optional C extension could not be compiled, speedups will not be
available.
**********************************************************************
error: Setup script exited with error: can't copy 'Genshi.egg-info/
native_libs.txt': doesn't exist or not a regular file


anybody has an idea how to convince setuptools to use the python
library? python works and it should be in the library path though.