On Monday 23 November 2009 10:38:27 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 10:03:35 Mark Moll wrote:
> > Between cmake 2.6.4 and cmake 2.8 the following lines were removed from
> > the FIND_LIBRARY(PYTHON_LIBRARY ...) command in FindPythonLibs.cmake:
> >
> > - PATH_SUFFIXES
> > - python${_CURRENT_VERSION}/config
> >
> > I don’t understand why this was done, because this is where python
> > libraries are found with the default settings. How do I make cmake find
> > the python library now?
>
> What Linux distribution is this on? I tested these changes on quite a few
> different distributions and the shared object in
> python${_CURRENT_VERSION}/config was a symlink to
> python${_CURRENT_VERSION}.so in the /usr/lib directory. Does your
> installation not have
> /usr/lib[64]/libpython2.5.so?
>
> Quite a few Linux distributions do not have the symlink in
> python${_CURRENT_VERSION}/config, whereas all the ones I came across had it
> in /usr/lib. So this would lead to link errors as only the static lib
> would be found, and that cannot be used on x86_64 for example.
>
> If you could provide more details then I will look into this further (I
> committed the change in response to a bug report, and numerous reports I
> had from users who had trouble linking to Python on 64 bit platforms).
>
For the benefit of the list, as it seems the CC was lost in Mark's reply, we
discussed the issue and the problem was in linking to the static Python
library. I emailed Mark a patched version of the FindPythonLibs.cmake module
that solved his issue.
I will check in my changes this week once I have done a few more tests, they
will make it in for CMake 2.8.1. Anyone suffering from this issue can override
the module locally too.
Marcus
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Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
(518) 881-4937
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