Re: [gentoo-dev] What provides -lpython2.2 ? (needed for koffice)

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

On Sunday 20 January 2002 15:15, you wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 12:59, Juergen Ilse wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:46:53AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 00:41, Juergen Ilse wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:44:39PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
> > > > > I haven't been able to find this myself either. What does provide
> > > > > -lpython2.2? Python doesn't install any libs according to its
> > > > > CONTENTS, but -lpython2.2 is in the python-config output.
> > > >
> > > > The static library mentioned above has the name libpython2.2.a
> > > > I didn't find a shared version of this library.
> >
> >                     ^^^^^^
> >
> > > it is here:
> > >   /usr/lib/python2.2/config/libpython2.2.a
> >
> > I already mentioned the place where to find the static version of this
> > library. libpython2.2.a is *not* a shared library but a static one.
> > I don*t know, if a shared version of this library is possible, but
> > until now, there is no shared version.
>
> Out of the 'ld' manpage:
>
> -------------------cut here----------------------------------
>        -larchive
>        --library=archive
>            Add archive file archive to the list of files to link.  This
> option may be used any number of times.  ld will search its  path-
>            list for occurrences of "libarchive.a" for every archive
> specified.
>
>            On  systems which support shared libraries, ld may also
> search for libraries with extensions other than ".a".  Specifically, on
>            ELF and SunOS systems, ld will search a directory for a
> library with an extension of ".so" before searching  for  one  with  an
>            extension of ".a".  By convention, a ".so" extension
> indicates a shared library.
> ------------------cut here-----------------------------------
>
> Meaning, that -lpython2.2 can be libpython2.2.a *or*
> libpython2.2.so, depending on if it is linked static or
> dynamic.
>
> I check the CONTENTS of 2.0 against 2.2, and the only thing
> that differs, is that Makefile.pre.in was not installed, which
> is fixed now.
>
> Bottom line: koffice's build scripts is broken, or we need
> to create a symlink from
> /usr/lib/python2.2/config/libpython2.2.a to
> /usr/lib/libpython2.2.a
>
> Anybody else have an idea ?
I put in a fix into the koffice ebuild a few hours ago that simply adds -L 
/usr/lib/python2.2/config.

The real fix should be to add the -L ... to the output of our python-config 
script. I'm about to do that.



-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel