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Re: python: update soon?
- From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:55:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: python: update soon?
- References: <446BDB51.9060906@users.sourceforge.net> <20060518131754.GD836@tishler.net> <446CED1D.5080202@users.sourceforge.net> <20060519132037.GC2848@tishler.net> <4474BEAE.3040600@users.sourceforge.net>
Yaakov,
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:14:38PM -0500, Yaakov S wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > AFAICT, Cygwin Python uses the normal Python layout.
> >
> > On Cygwin, we have:
> >
> > $ ls /usr/lib/python2.4/config
> > Makefile Setup.config config.c install-sh makesetup
> > Setup Setup.local config.c.in libpython2.4.dll.a python.o
> >
> > and on Linux, we have:
> >
> > $ ls usr/lib/python2.4/config
> > Makefile Setup.config config.c install-sh makesetup
> > Setup Setup.local config.c.in libpython2.4.a python.o
>
> AFAIK the difference is not in config but in /usr/lib; on Linux,
> libpython2.4.so* are installed in /usr/lib, allowing one to link
> against python with a simple -lpython2.4, where we need -
> -L/usr/lib/python2.4/config also.
Under Cygwin, the "analog" of libpython2.4.so, libpython2.4.dll, is
installed in /usr/bin. So, users don't have to add /usr/lib to their
PATH.
> Having a copy/symlink of libpython2.4.dll.a in /usr/lib would help
> make Cygwin more compatible with python-dependent autotooled packages,
> which are not yet sensitive to this peculiarity.
Understood. Would you be willing to champion a patch that creates a
symlink of libpython2.4.dll.a in /usr/lib?
Thanks,
Jason
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