Hi Don, On 2010-04-02, Don Rozenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > H, > > I would like to use pyexiv2 in a photo album program that I am writing > but I had trouble building 0.2.0 on Ubuntu 9.10 with Python 2.6.4. > > The build hangs on the command: > > g++ -o build/libexiv2python.so -shared build/exiv2wrapper.os > build/exiv2wrapper_python.os -lboost_python -lexiv2 > > with the message that it is unable to locate libboost_python. I have > boost 1.38 installed on my machine and was able to locate in /usr/lib > libboost_python-mt-py26.a and libboost_python-mt-py26.so, so what I did > was to make a symbolic link between /usr/lib/libboost_python-mt-py26.a > and /usr/local/lib/libboost_python.a. This allowed me to complete the > build of pythonexiv2. The tests then ran successfully.
You're hitting a known issue (https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyexiv2/+bug/523858): on some distributions/architectures, the boost libs have the -mt suffix and by default pyexiv2's build system cannot find them. Fortunately, there is a work around. Just invoke scons like this: scons BOOSTLIB=boost_python-mt > My question is "What should I have done?". Your solution works but has the drawback of messing with the system install, which you probably want to avoid. If I were you I would remove those symbolic links, it will save you some future headaches! > Thanks, in Advance, > Don I hope this helps! Cheers, Olivier _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~pyexiv2-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~pyexiv2-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
