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

[Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@yahoo.com>]

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.
> 
> But let us talk about something else ...
> I had difficulties to build koffice-i18n-1.1.1 (same problem with some
> other packages): It seems so, that the ebuild script wants to change
> the directory to work/kde-i18n but there is no such directory in the
> unpacked source ... I solved this problem (for me) with a kind of dirty
> hack: i changed to /var/tmp/portage/koffice-1.1.1/work and created a
> softlink from kde-i18n-1.1.1 to kde-i18n before the unpacking of the
> source was complete. How can this problem be solved without this "dirty
> hack" of creating a softlink while the build-process is unpacking the
> source? Any ideas?
Looks like $S ebuild variable has wrong value. As kde stuff uses
eclasses, I'm not sure what is the right way to change it. For 
usual ebuild it's at the beginning:
"S=${WORKDIR}/${P}" if unpacked directory is the same as the
<package-version>, or "S=${WORKDIR}/_what_ever_the_dir_is" otherwise.