Re: cvs tip broken build for plpython

Tom Lane said:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> The last REL7_4_STABLE build the machine did had this:
>
>> ccache gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>> -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -shared -Wl,-soname,libplpython.so.0
>> plpython.o -L../../../src/port  -L/usr/lib/python2.2/config -ldl
>> -lpthread -lutil -lm -lpython2.2   -o libplpython.so.0.0
>
>> So it looks like this is what's missing: -L/usr/lib/python2.2/config
>> ...  I see that indeed there is libpython2.2.a in that location.
>
> Yeah, I had just found the same on my machine.  However, what we'd
> really *rather* it link to is a libpython.so someplace.  The link
> against libpython.a results in copying all of the python interpreter
> into plpython.so.
>
> On my FC3 installation, there is a /usr/lib/libpython2.3.so.1.0
> ... do you have anything comparable?
>

No, except the non-standard one on the openoffice libs. Building as shared
lib only became a part of standard python in release 2.3 - see
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/whatsnew/node20.html

If we want to insist on a shared lib then we should check for it as we do
for plperl, shouldn't we?


cheers

andrew