Another variant of this case, one we're actually facing here at our company (Nexedi) right now, is when you need to compile extension modules with libraries that are newer than the ones in the system, and you don't have root access. The absense of LD_LIBRARY_PATH means a segfault on an arbitrary moment during execution, not just an unloadable library.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 20:00, Carl Meyer <c...@meyerloewen.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Mark, > > On 03/18/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz wrote: >> Here is a case that might resemble what you are talking about: >> >> Compile a C extension that requires a shared library that is not in the >> standard system path. To import it, LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be right. > > But this required shared library that is not on the standard system path > - - is it something that might have been installed, via Python > (distutils/setuptools/d2/packaging), in the virtualenv, where if it had > been installed in that same way in the system Python installation it > would be on the standard system path? > > If so, do you have any specific examples of installable Python projects > that install a shared library that other ones might need in order to > compile, so that I can test this case and make it work? > > If not, then it seems this is a general Python packaging issue, not > anything specific to this virtual-python proposal. In which case I don't > have to care, at least not just now ;-) > >> This is not really different from what happens in a compiled language, >> except in one way: In C, I can compile it -static or I can give the >> full path to the .so file. Either results in a thing that works without >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. >> >> With distutils, you can't. It goes to great lengths to ensure that you >> can only compile a C extension with "cc ... -L/some/directory -lname" -- >> I can't find any way to make it do "cc ... /some/directory/libname.so" >> >> So, the real problem here is that distutils uses "cc -L", but it >> demonstrates a case where LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be important to a python >> program even when Python itself can run without it. > > Thanks! > > Carl > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk2Dq+MACgkQFRcxmeyPUXJbHwCfa1FpWif7nRJK90EARxxs8yGq > bTMAnAxNj8eU3ohfRiCZyHOlNGIiL33T > =Zmep > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
