Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Umm, yeah.  configure is always looking for the libs in
> > <prefix>/lib/<version>config.  Which for me (both system
> > and personal install) contains only the static libs.
>
> And that would be what a normal install looks like:
>
>   - If you configure python with --enable-shared, lib/ should only
>     contain the dso, and lib/python-<version>/config/ should only
>     contain the archive.
>
>   - If you configure without --enable-shared, then lib/ should only
>     contain the archive. And so should your lib/python-<version>/config/
>     directory.
>
> The bottom line, IMO, is that you python install is simply broken.

It works fine with gdb-7.1 (dynamically linked)...

> It looks like libpython.so was built separately from the rest of
> the python install. For instance, what does "ldd /path/to/your/python"
> show? Is it linked against libpython.so?

Um, no, it appears to be linked statically.
What about yours (the 2.7 version that you built)?