James Stroud wrote: > Hello All, > > This is annoying. I am trying to build scipy right now but every .so > file requires my adding "-lpython2.5 -lpthread -lm -lutil -ldl -shared" > to the ld flags. > > Main Question: When building with "setup.py", where can I include this > information so I don't have to link every .so file by hand? > > Also, why would this not be caught by the developers of scipy and numpy? > What factors go into needing to specify libraries and to properly link > .so files manually? Certainly the enthought didn't forget to test the > build process, so why would my machine be special in this regard? > > I'm running Linux FC4 on a dual intel p4 (~3.2 GHz) with sundry > libraries in non-standard places. Is this non-standard part what's > killing me? > > James >
Well I added those arguments to $LDFLAGS, but it seemed like a pretty miserable hack, especially the "-shared" part. I'm still curious how to make a 3rd party setup.py work correctly. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
